As vineyards said there has been many civilisations living in this area. I don´t know if the Kurds were the first occupants.

 Me neither - but I guess it depends on how far we go back

 Thats true something changed under the pressure of EU, thats people became more hostile to eachother.  And what about thousands of innocent Turkish citizens killed by Kurdish facists? As i know Kurds are using their language everywhere except the official institutions. Besides what are their cultural holidays? As far as i know nowadays they celebrate the 15th of August where 33 Turkish soldiers killed which is not cultural. By the way is there a country called Kurdistan established that we dont know? As some members here comparing it to Turkey & Poland. History repeats itself and i advice you to research how many Kurdish riots uprised during war of independence and the following years instead of trying to give history lessons here and who were behind those riots. In fact Turks expect initiative from Kurds, like its beter if they do not stone the government offices as they just used those offices, its better if they choose parlimentarian not from a prison but from a school, its better if they send their girls and boys to school instead of demanding official Kurdish education, its better if they riot against their feudal system instead of state, its better if they do not sabotage the enterprices and investments that the state provides, then the problem is mostly solved... 

 Exactly!

 You make a really great point...however, we don´t speak any native American language as an official language in the US....they all speak English.  Maybe its not fair but it is reality and we can sit an argue about it all day but the official language of Turkey is Turkish and I think it is not unreasonable to expect the citizens of Turkey to speak Turkish.  By the same token, Kurds should NOT be discriminated against if they speak Kurdish in their own home or businesses...etc...

Do you know how many people died exactly?

Can you show me an official documentation showing the ethnicity of the people who died?

Can you tell us how many of them were kurdish and how many of them were turkish?

Can you also tell us that how those kurds died (a mass suicide)?

Do you know how many times our own goverment punished by EU human rights court? (do you recognize is as a court?)

Do you know that there are 17.000 kurds gone missing  and their bones are being found here and there? how do you think they have gone missing? magic?

And what do you think the solution from your side apart from ´we want to kill them all and cause many more  turks-kurds got killed´?

If they were not rebelious, put your hand into your heart and tell us, would you give any RIGHTS to the people who said they were kurds?

I mean would you recognize their identity? would you recognize their language?

You know, you´re right. I didn´t even think about it. I was comparing the situation to the situation of immigrants, but I didn´t even think of Poland´s history of fight for their independence when they were divided between neighbouring countries and wiped from the map for almost 150 years. The Poles too had to fight for the independence in several uprisings (which I´m sure the government considered as terrorist) and they had to preserve the language, which the Russians, Prussians and Austrians wanted to eradicate via the process of germanization or russification. Good thing they didn´t succeed or I would have to speak German now, which is not the sexiest of languages (in my opinion). History does repeat itself, sometimes in a different part of the world.

 As usual you jumped thehandsom, what is your post relevance to my post except your standard agitations? I dont need to research ethnicities as the ones who killed were Turkish citizens. And regarding the bones you mentioned, do you know their ethnicities? do you mean 17000 people´s bones found? In fact its proved bones were dog bones. I explained the solution in my previous post if you read carefully. Actually they have the same rights like all Turkish citizens. The question is what they want from state now other than ordinary Turkish citizen have.

As usual  you are in denial..

You did not answer my questions (I bet you do NOT know the answers )

well..how relevant? since it is called ´KURDISH PROBLEM´ I think how many kurds died is very relevant..

Because you do not CARE how many kurds died that is why we have KURDISH PROBLEM!!

It may not be RELEVANT to you..but it is really relevant to the KURDS specially..

If they all had the same rights as Turks ( ) why do you think half of the Turkish media is talking about the KURDISH problem and trying to find solutions (including the army)

17.000 are missing, some of them  were identified with DNA matching and everyday we are learning where they got burried how they got killed etc.

do not worry..They are all coming out

hahaha that genocide was commited with the help of america. who gave saddam those biological weapons to kill the Kurds? Turkey or your beloved christian americans? and those kurds were killed for being kurds not for being muslims, so calling it a muslim genocide shows how clueless you are.

want to see the pictures of Iraqis genocided and tortured by your fellow christians?

why don`t you give the Irish the right to get education in their own language in England? are you aware of the fact that you`re violating human rights? they have always been in Britain, so why do they have to change their language?