Their basic rights are:
Freedom to Ocalan
General amnesy for PKK terrorists.
Autonomy etc.
Bold part is the key. We are not a confederation.
Let's agree to disagree as we are both repeating the same things.
We also, allowed some christian nations to rule over their lands. It's called divide and conquer. First divide, give power to local leader who is pro-Ottoman. After decades change him with an Ottoman governor. After another decades annex. And move to next one.
I never said the otherwise. But we can't agree with you on both Ottomans and Seljuqs were Turkish empires.
If you go there it will be ethnic origins. As for nationality we all consider ourselves as Turkish. Just not some seperatist Kurds.
Are you really going to make me find one for you.....
So I guess that you don't support equal rights for Turkic minorities across the world by that logic? You want Russia to ban Tatar language for instance and abolish the autonomous region of Tatarstan?
You don't have to be a federation to recognize more than 1 language…..
So you are denying the fact that the Ottoman empire was multiethnic and a Islamic empire but rather that they were a nationalistic Turkish (no Turkey back then) empire? Why were over half of the Turkish words in 1923 then Arabic and why did the Sultan use the title Caliph then? Which is more important than that of Sultan. Both titles are Arabic titles.
They were but what has that to do with the fact that Turkey as a country is 90 years old?
Does not change the fact that the local rulers had their own local authority and ruled as rulers. They only pledged alliance to the Caliph who in return promised them protection. People were not Turkified anywhere in the non-Turkish areas of the Ottoman Empire. Certainly not in the Arab world.
The Arab world which previously had held the Caliphate for nearly 1000 years and whose heritage was the Caliphate among many other things.
Turkish should be the nationality and Turkish should be the language. But I don't see how giving Kurds some of the rights they demand (some are probably more right than others) and allowing them to speak their mother language equals = them forming a new country?
Was it not a crime to speak Kurdish officially (in the public) in Turkey for a very long time? Help me out here. Some Kurds on this forum have talked about that a lot and some other laws. You agree with such a harsh thing?
Well, I am asking because all data I see mentions at least 15% of the population.