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With 20 million Kurds in the world they are the largest ethnicity without a home nation and about half of that population resides in Southeastern Turkey. The Turkish government and the Kurdish minority have been at odds since the end of the Turkish War of Independence in 1923. The original Treaty of Sevres signed after World War II, in 1920, allowed for the possibility of a Kurdish state, but this treaty was largely ignored by the Turkish nationalists and annulled during the war (Kubicek, 2). Later on the Treaty of Lausanne, signed in 1923, legitimized what is modern Turkey and ignored the large Kurdish population (Kubicek, 2). In 1925, 1930, and 1936-38, the Kurds launched several revolts that were all suppressed by the Turkish military (Kubicek, 2). These were the largest revolts in the new country and because they were led by Kurds and took place in Kurdish regions, which led to the idea that the Kurdish minority was the biggest threat to the new state.
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