Kurdistan is a geographical region inhabited mainly by ethnic Kurds. It is not an independent country. While an independent Kurdistan was provided for in the Treaty of Sèvres—a post-World War I pact between the Allied powers and the Ottoman sultan that was signed in 1920—the treaty was never ratified. This was due to the military revival of Turkey under Kemal Atatürk. The treaty that superseded it, the Treaty of Lausanne, did not mention Kurdistan.
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