Since before the dawn of recorded history the mountainous lands of the northern Middle East have been home to a distinct people whose cultural tradition is one of the most authentic and original in the world. Some vestiges of Kurdish life and culture can actually be traced back to burial rituals Practiced over 50,000 years ago by people inhabiting the Shanidar Caves near Erbil in Southern Kurdistan.
Persians, Arabs, and Turks have attempted to stop the growth Kurdish people as a distinct and separate national entity. Often they have tried to do away with them altogether. They have glossed over the Kurdish past, denying the originality of this ancient culture, and preventing original research on any topic of national importance to ethnic Kurds. They ( Persians, arabs, and Turks) have created and foinsted false identities onto the Kurds-such as the labels "Mountain Turks" in Turkey, and " Umayyad Arab" in Syria and Iraq for the Ezidi Kurds. Persians have simply denied the Kurds separate ethnic existence in Iran.
I treat as Kurdish every community that has ever inhabited the territory of Kurdistan and has not acquired a separate identity to this day, or been unequivocally connected with another identifiable nation the bulk of which is or was living outside the territories of Kurdistan. This is consistent with what is accepted by consensus for the identification of ancient Egyptians or Greeks and the relationship they have to modern Egyptians and Greeks.
By the same certainty that we accept the inhabitants of pharaonic Egypt as the unquestionable forbearers of the modern egyptians, despite the fact that they spoke a different language, practiced a different religion, and had different racial characteristics, the ancient inhabitants of Kurdistan ought to be equally treated as the forbearers of the modern ones. (Izady)

Manifesto of the Kurdish People

Manifesto of the Kurdish People
for the Creation of a Free, Independent and Unified Homeland 1996

Justice dictates that all nations are inherently equal and entitled to the same natural rights. That some nations are under the involuntary dominance of others presents an unnatural state and a source of imbalance in the lives of people and nations. Insomuch as voluntary unions are moral, legitimate and a source of prosperity and harmony, forced unions are immoral, illegitimate and harbingers of poverty and strife. Nations have the fundamental and natural right to determine the course of their own future.

We, the Kurdish Nation, observing that all existing unions of the fragments of our Homeland with neighboring states are involuntary, and hence unnatural, immoral and illegitimate, declare them null and void in toto. Whereas no nation seeks nor needs external consent to exercise its fundamental and natural right to self determination, the Kurdish Nation likewise neither seeks nor needs any such alien consent in its exercise.

For this and in order to preserve our pride and dignity, to revitalize and foster our customs and heritage, and to prevent the demise and dissolution of our identity, we the People of Kurdistan undertake to constitute an independent, unified and democratic state to include all of us within its body and to set us free to determine our own destiny. All Kurdish patriots as individuals, and the Nation as a whole, are to implement this right by severing the existing bonds of servitude under alien dominance.

The free state of Kurdistan, formed on the basis of its Provisional Constitution, shall contain the entirety of the Nation's heritage and include by free choice every and all Kurds, their land, property and inheritance without exception or compromise. No part or parts of the Nation's patrimony, land or otherwise, shall ever be bartered through negotiation, boundary settlements or other expedients.