The Kurds and Palestinians are two nations that are consciously similar in their struggle for independence, and yet each of them has a unique and different history in this struggle. Both of these cases began in the early 20th century, after World War I, with the history of these nations going back much further than that. Britain was indirectly responsible, along with France, for triggering these dilemmas in the Middle East region which remain unresolved to the present day. In 1916, the Sykes-Picot Agreement was signed between Britain and France with the aim of controlling and influencing the Middle East after the fall of the British Empire. the Ottoman Empire, which was the sole controller of the region. Followed by the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920, new borders were drawn by the 2 European countries for Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and Syria, among other countries in the Levant. However, the Kurdish population who resided between these geographical borders did not receive any land, but were divided within the new borders, causing them more difficulties than before. As for the Palestinian case, Zionist and Palestinian nationalist movements appeared in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. What further strengthened Zionist nationalist movements was the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which supported the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine while protecting the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities. Since then, both populations have been trying, with unfortunate success, to become independent nation-states. The Kurdish case: According to the Washington Post, the Kurds are a predominantly Sunni Muslim people who have their own language and culture. They inhabit large parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria and a small part of Armenia. The Kurdish way of life was nomadic, revolving around ...... middle of paper ......8). Israel/Palestine. London, UK: Politics. p. 221.G. Chaliand, AR Ghassemlou, M. Pallis, A People Without A Country, 256 pp., Zed Books, 1992, p.58. GS Harris, ethnic conflict and the Kurds, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, pp. 118-120, 1977.Helena Cobban, The Palestine Liberation Organization (Cambridge University Press, 1984) p.30.Khanam, R. (2005). Encyclopedic ethnography of the Middle East and Central Asia. AI, V. 1. Global Vision Publishing House. p. 470.Moshe Gil, A History of Palestine, 634-1099 Cambridge University Press, (1983) 1997 pp.222-300NEZAN, K. Who are the Kurds? Kurdish Institute of Paris. Retrieved from: http://www.institutkurde.org/en/institute/who_are_the_kurds.php van Bruinessen, Martin. "Kurdistan." Oxford Companion to World Politics, 2nd edition. Joël Krieger, ed. Oxford University Press, 2001.