Kurdish-inhabited area Of course, they aren't ... Oguz Turks A Turk journalist and a very good and honest analysis of the situtation in Turkey ... The fundamental design flaw of the Turkish Republic In the beginning, the state said, 'Let there be no Kurds.' And it hoped that everybody would see this official light, and see that it was good On May 1, 1920, Mustafa Kemal, who would soon be the founder of the Turkish Republic, delivered an important speech at the Parliament in Ankara. “The people who have formed this supreme assembly are not just Turks,” he said. “They are also Circassians, Kurds or Laz. They are all different components of Islam. They all respect each other, and each other’s ethnic, social and geographic rights.” That was the time of Turkey’s War of Liberation (1919-1922). As the leader of this national struggle to save the homeland from European invaders, Mustafa Kemal used