I have to say that we have a rather large group of Kurdish refugees in Belgium, and we have the Kurdish broadcasting center and some Kurdish terrorist / freedom fighters cells, so it's not a conflict that has been wholly ignored. The odd thing is that while Palestine is something of a hot topic in the umma, I don't see many of my muslim students debating the plight of the Kurds - I've always assumed it was because while the 'bad guys' in the Palestinian conflict are non-muslims, the Kurds are being oppressed by one semi-secular (but mostly muslim) and a handful of muslim nations. In a European story of pure, universal islam the idea that within the umma people are being discriminated against, doesn't fit the rhetoric. Which makes you wonder about the imams those kids listen to, and the websites they visit.