A Beautiful People - but where is Kurdistan ... and what has it to do with world peace?

There is no doubt that Kurds appear an attractive people, especially from their media photos. Their traditional dress is colourful. They hail from the same part of the world - the Middle East - as many Arabic folk, yet look distinct.

Like many, they claim to have a homeland. Historically they seem to have always lived around where the borders of modern Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran meet. However it would be a very old map to show the country of Kurdistan. It has long been absorbed into the four modern lands. But should there be a Kurdistan - Iraq already has, since the defeat of Saddam Hussein's regime, a semi-autonomous area of Kurdistan.

No doubt the question would upset the regimes in the area: it could also affect other states with large populations of Kurds like Armenia and Azerbaijan. The damning thing about this question is that the middle east is already full of many people who feel disenfranchised. The world's economy has a larger gap between rich and poor - states and people - than ever.

We cannot rely on stability with all of the opposing forces - the last time the world economy looked anything like this was in the 1920's and 1930's, and many people alive today can remember what that led to.

The scapegoat then was the Jewish people. Not that they did or had anything to upset others, just that the German people had politicians who were media-savvy, like the leaders of IS in the middle east. Germany also had a few wealthy families who owned large businesses and happened to be Jewish, so politicians (like Trump, to mention but one) stirred anger and hatred against the "exploiters".

Now the Kurds, unlike the Jews, have not been quiet - they are agitating for independence. As a matter of fact, they are some of the oppressed people, not least because, without a recognised country to be driven from, they cannot be recognised as refugees, so the "civilised" world just ignores their persecution in their "own countries"

So long as we in the "civilised world" ignore such problems we will have more of what we saw in France last week. Social media "whiz kids" will recruit from our own urban ghettos if we don't help the displaced, the refugees, the asylum seekers. Our next trouble could be dirtier, more blood-thirsty and more uncomfortable than Hitler's Germany ever was.