Ritu wrote: hould be the default for groups with separate languages.
Eww! I think that is a pretty bad idea, at least for my part of the world.
I don't like the idea either. Drawing lines and creating ethnic enclaves would tend to reinforce natural xenophobic tendencies, IMO. So while it might promote short term harmony (though I'm not even sure of that), it would do little to solve the long term problem.
I think the idea behind the EU - blurring boundries - is closer to the right idea. Turkey should be encouraged to respect the Kurdish minority and grant it some degree of political responsibility especially in regions where they are the dominant ethnicity, but expecting Turkey or any other country to just lop off some portion of their territory and hand it over to someone else is unrealistic.
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