ABSTRACT The Kurds, an ethnic minority numbering 20-25 million people are primarily concerted in Turkey, Iran and Iraq with residual communities found in Syria and Armenian republic. The bulk of Kurds live in contiguous areas in the east and south east of Turkey, north and northeast of Iraq and North West of Iran and northeast Syria. Before the emergence of modern nation states in West Asia, the Kurds were the frontiersman, living on the disputed borders between rival Ottoman and Persian empires.After the World War I, when new states were carved out of a disintegrating Ottoman empire, the Kurds like the stateless Jews were also regarded as natural candidate for nationhood. The Treaty of Serves, which had envisioned interim autonomy for the predominantly Kurdish areas, became irrelevant, as the reconstructed Turkish army overran Kurdish territories in 1922. While a large chunk of Kurdish population was left within the borders of the new Turkish republic founded by Ataturk, Britain and France indirectly awarded themselves Kurdish areas through their client states, Iraq and Syria. The non-implement the provisions of the Treaty set off sporadic Kurdish resistance to the central control in all three states – Turkey, Iraq and Iran – where Kurds are primarily concentrated.