The Kurds have come close to creating the Great Kurdistan. Iraqi Kurdistan is close to independence, and Syrian and Turkish Kurds are creating a territory under the unified control, while the Iranian Kurds get united.
The Kurds reside in Turkey - 12-15 million, Iran and Syria - 7.5 million, and Iraq - 4-4.5 million. In all of these countries except Iran, Kurds form the second largest ethnic group. They represent 15-20 percent of the population in Iraq, nine percent in Syria, twenty - in Turkey and seven percent - in Iran. Many of them are cherishing a dream of a unified state.
The strongest Kurdish community is in Iraq. The Kurds there are on the verge of independence, with their autonomy, army, budget and finances. The Kurds received this status through the U.S. invasion.
The Americans had originally hoped to create a "multi-ethnic Iraqi nation" based on the American model, but Kurdish President Massoud Barzani refused to sign the new constitution of Iraq if it did not specify the widest autonomous Kurdish rights, and achieved his goal.
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