�States make war, but war also makes states� writes Bruce D. Porter in �War and the Rise of the State.�

As a result of this geopolitical reality, specifically with regards to the ongoing wars and conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Turkey, is it time to finally acknowledge and work with the Kurds for an independent state?

And, is it also time to recognize that for those whose nationalistic dreams are destroyed, they are subject to ruin?

What�s more, when large ethnic groups like the Kurds share a language, family and a religion, culture and 3,000-year-old history and, yet, are continually persecuted and denied a delineated political boundary with a sovereign structure, organized mass violence, persecution and even ethnic cleansing is bound to be the norm instead of the exception. To be sure, international tensions will also become more intense.

Kurds Have Endured the Arc of �Injustice�

The Kurds are actually the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Northeast Mediterranean region. In addition to straddling the mountains and plateaus of eastern Turkey, northern Syria, western Armenia, northern Iraq and northwestern and central Iran, their lands were part of the vast multiethnic Ottoman and Persian Empires. But unfortunately, their story has always been one of a stateless people, suppressed and denied a nationalistic dream.

After World War I, an independent Kurdish state was in fact proposed by Great Britain and France but later abandoned � something which actually seemed absurd by two great powers dependent on statehood.

Since then, Kurdish nationalist movements have led to conflicts and limited genocide. In fact, even the U.S. supplied Saddam Hussein with attack helicopters and chemical weapons that were later used to crush Kurdish resistance.

What�s more, in 2003, one reason the U.S. preemptively invaded Iraq was likening Saddam Hussein�s scorched earth policy against the Kurds to Adolf Hitler�s extermination of Jews.

And even though the dismemberment of Iraq caused a dire situation, Iraqi Kurds were still able to gain autonomous civil authority in the north. In other words, nationalism not only defeated the U.S.-in-Iraq but is a Kurdish instinct.

Kurdish Parliament in Northern Iraq a Foothold for Statehood

The newly formed Kurdish parliament in northern Iraq and its autonomous region could actually serve as a foothold for �a nation apart� to develop into a new and unified sovereign entity that is recognized by both the UN and U.S.

After all, the U.S. did encourage and used Kurdish populations in Iraq to rebel against Saddam Hussein. Is it time, then, to finally sign a blank check for a whole unified and autonomous region too?

It appears, though, powerful actors � both friend and foe � might be suppressing the Kurdish dream for a self-governing state. Not only has Turkey rejected any ceasefire with Syrian Kurds, but, and according to some strategists, they have sent troops and tanks into Syria to not necessarily battle ISIS but exterminate Kurds and Kurdish nationalism. If so, the kind of statehood Turkey is displaying is infantile and destructive, even tribal.

But even the U.S., for the moment, seems to have abandoned the Kurds in their quest for a free and independent state.

Indeed, when Turkey launched its military operation in northern Syria, Washington abandoned a key Kurdish ally, evoking the memory of mass deportations and other barbarities by a former U.S.-backed Saddam Hussein regime. In the end, statehood and nationalism should never be used to systematically kill others.

Statelessness Leads to Persecution, What�s In a Name?

Today, many Kurds are discriminated against because of their stateless status. They have, in effect, paid an enormous price, including large sums of money for properties, only to discover that it was a real estate scam or government land.

Conflicts between Kurdish separatists and Turkish and Syria government and paramilitary forces have merely exacerbated the persecution, and will continue until a Kurdish state becomes a reality.

Although statehood sometimes has a way of oppressing others, for millions of Kurds, Kurdistan is everything, including a buffer from persecution and partial ethnic cleansing.

Indeed, Kurdistan does not only mean �land of the Kurds� but it is, and will always remain, their nation until death do they part. Through diplomatic diplomacy and righting the wrongs of the past, it doesn�t have to mean the destruction of Turkey or Iran or Syria.

In the meantime, if there is a correlation between a state�s development and the organization of its culture, history and armed forces, the Kurds are bound to be a stabilizing force in an extremely destabilized region.

With leanings towards Western liberalism and human rights, both the UN and U.S. should be doing more to transform the stateless Kurds into a unified and sovereign nation called Kurdistan.