Kurds need the right to be different; not the right to be equal

"The Kurdish question as it is experienced by Kurds of Turkey, contrary to expectations, is not at all a matter of 'discrimination' and 'otherization.' Rather, the Kurdish problem arises from a lack of recognition of the Kurds as a separate self... Kurds need the right to be different; not the right to be equal." - Sociologist Mücahit Bilici