Maybe the same reason you didn't mention any of the current humanitarian crises happening in Sudan, Myanmar, The DRC, Yemen, and Xinjiang China?
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Can you elaborate further on the situation in Kurdistan?
Every state in the region tries to stamp out Kurdish identity. Turkey is notorious about this. Iran is currently droning Kurds in Iraq. Syria just fucked over the AANES which had a thriving multicultural system with Kurds as a foundational part.
Basically, Kurds do a lot of dying for the region, especially in their valiant fight against ISIS but everyone still treats them like shit.
Oof.
I’m really sorry to correct you on a point: Turkiye is not ‘notorious’ about this anymore. Over the past year, Erdogan + TR nationalists struck a huge deal with Öcalan, imprisoned Kurdish separatist founder. PKK and Türkiye are besties now. Even so, TR ultrafascists pushing for his full release & granting official status. So there’s a chance they’re not ‘oppressed’ as much as Palestinians now.
Maybe because western governments, the media and corporations aren’t funding any wide genocide of Kurds?
Less media coverage and public awareness I suppose. I'll admit I don't know anything about what's going on in Kurdistan, but I see news about Palestine almost every day.
Historic stuff.
Palestine was a country, or a region/territory administrated by the British. The formation of Israel was a bit of a historic coincidence, the empire was beaten by WW2 and scoping down and giving independence because the colonial stuff couldn't be maintained any longer.
The situation with the europen jews was problematic, because even though Nazi Germany was defeated, the prejudices against jews weren't removed by snapping your fingers and the question of where the millions of victims should go and live was open. Putting them into Palestine and creating Israel was a convenient alignment of both the political opportunity and the public opinion of people who wanted the jews gone and the jews who wanted to leave and live in Israel instead.
You may notice that the one group that wasn't asked in this situation was the population of Palestine.
That's sort of the short version of how Israel came to be.
The situation with the Kurds is completely different. They have no real external political support. The countries where "Kurdistan" would be "belongs" to intact, functioning sovereign nations, who all between each other agree to the current borders. And who all can field the military and governmental power to enforce that claim, both externally, but also internally. Because of how international territorial disputes are resolved, this is a "solved problem" diplomatically and internationally.
Kurds who are pro Kurdistan and... well, armed, are treated as rebels against the government. And other governments also don't like rebels in their countries, so the question of how legitimate the claim is, doesn't even get debated on that level.
So in short, supporting a "free Kurdistan" looks more like support rebels and terrorists, compared to palestinians who drew the short stick in a historical conflict and who are an underdog and "legitimately defending" themselves. So associating one-self with that is easier than with Kurdistan.
(And I'm not judging the legitimacy of any party in any of the conflicts, everyone has their story.)
What's a Kurdistan?
Seriously, that is the problem. Many people simply don't know what is happening a few hundred kilometers away if the news does not shove it down their throat.
Partly at least, publicity.
Due to the way it came to be and its allegiances, Israel is generally treated as part of the "Western world", and is thus much more in the European and American spotlight.
Thus its absolute oppression and genocide of Palestinian people has a lot more Western eyes on it than the plight of the Kurds.
Fewer Kurdish refugees being vocal, I'm guessing.
No, their is a very active diaspora. They are making event every month in front of place of power to make them heard. However, a move to help kurdish people is consider as a threat by the Turkish State
When I lived in the city there was a Kurdish protest march almost once a months. Not a very big one, but they are persistent.
AFAIK the Kurds have been infamous for their tendency to stab each other in the back. It's almost like the Kurds themselves don't want to be part of a country called Kurdistan.
That however does not justify the oppression of Kurds, and that's the part that is mostly protested against.
Also the Kurds don't have it nowhere near as bad as the Palestinians.
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