The largest stateless nation. Forty to forty-five million people across Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria. A century of promises broken, borders drawn through their homeland, alliances forged and abandoned. Now, in March 2026, Kurdish forces are being armed, Kurdish leaders are receiving phone calls from the American president, and the pattern that has defined the Kurdish experience since 1920 is activating again.

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