Diri wrote: Kermanshah IS 100% populated by Kurds - they are half half Shia and Sunni - but KURDS... Adana and Mersin MAY BE majority Kurdish by population but we have no HISTORICAL claim to them and we have no NEED for them - besides it is very "un reasonable" because that is contradictive to your "lets be reasonable" - as we would have to take land that isn't Kurdistan... Iskenderûn is enough for Kurdistan - and Osmaniye - our two ports cities in the West...

Have you ever been there? Have you ever had friends from Kirmashan?
I have. And the sad reality is that the forced suppression of the kurdish language( Southern kurdish dialects) by racist persians over the last 70 years, have had a deep effect on the people, especially shiite kurds living there. Many of them don't speak in kurdish anymore, I mean mothers talk in persian to their children and it's been like this for at least 30 years.
In most ethno-linguistic maps, kirmashan is located just on the border between persians and kurds, despite the undeniable kurdistani identity of this city. ( as you correctly pointed out)
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_e ... n_2004.jpg
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_e ... e_2002.jpg
Of course this assimilation process hasnot happened to all of the residents of the city, especially those who have migrated from the surrounding towns and villages. In addition to this, there are many persians living there, brought to the city by the government to solidify perisan control over the city, just the way they did in Wurme (Urumiye)( where the state is supporting turkish settlers against kurdish people).
I can say Southern kurdish is still alive in half of the city, and surrounding areas like Kerend, Shah-abad ( Islam-abad), Gilan-e-gharb, Qesri Shirin, ... . Many of those towns are "Yarsan", not "muslim", which is the ancient religion of kurds, wrongly labelled as "Ali-o-llahi" by the persians just to discredit it.
"Yarsan" people have a special "holy book" for themselves, which is written in kurdish, perhaps the oldest ( and the only) kurdish sacred book.
As for "Iskenderun", I think you are making a mistake, this is an arab city claimed by syria, and inhabitants are arabs.
"After the First World War the Sanjak of Alexandretta became part of the French Mandate territory, but Turkey demanded its return as the area was ethnically divided between Turks, Sunni Arabs, and large numbers of Alawites."
http://www.answers.com/topic/iskenderun
If you look at this map
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_e ... ish_86.jpg, you will see that the small southern part of turkey, on the mediterranean
north-west of syria, isnot majority kurdish, Iskenderun is located in that area ( Alexandretta, or "Hatay" as turks call it). It is populated by arabs.
http://www.europe-atlas.com/turkey-map.htm
But just north of Hatay, you see a big chunk of red, somewhere between Gaziantep and Adana. (just north-east of Adana).
About Osmaniye, I agree.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_e ... _pol83.jpg
In addition, I don't think this map
http://www.kurdishacademy.org/maps/map-02.html is that correct, since it shows Hamadan ( a mixed turkish-persian city) on the border of kurdish region, while Hamadan is surrounded by turkish villages.
On the other hand it shows "Ilam" as persian which isnot true, if you have met "Ilami" people. They all speak in Southern kurdish, very close to Xaneqin dialect.
This map, I think is a bit better; (with the same mistaek about Ilam)
http://www.kurdishacademy.org/maps/map-04.html
If you have more info., please let me know.