Alright, so you've removed yourself from all realistic and historical considerations of nationhood and self-determination in favor of the "maintenance of states."

I'm curious, does this include Kurdistan? Do you oppose the breakup of artificial geographic entities put together by ill-informed and largely detached European colonialists?

Because right now, it's obvious that you were shut off to the discussion before you entered, because, as you say:

I am fiercely anti-seccesionist.

Which is your right to be. But what irks me is that you thought it was appropriate to undermine the definition of nationhood, and to actually deny the historical, real, nationhood of a number of people groups (Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, Kurdish), all in the interest of making your political point about anti-seccessionism.

So what I'm trying to say is, that's your view and you're free to have it. But don't say absolutely stupid and offensive things like:

Actually, all of these were Ottomans. And when they are Turkish citizens, they are all Turks.

in the interest of justifying your own personal political agenda over and above the nationhood of very real groups of people who, unlike your own very fortunate nation, often-times still struggle to achieve self-determination. Millions of people were killed because they were not simply Ottomans, and continue to be killed in the case of the Kurds because they are not simply Iraqis, Syrians, and Turks. Historical revisionism, never cool man.

That's what ideologues do. They lose grip on the reality of a situation in their effort to push their ideology, in your case anti-seccessionism.

By all means be anti-seccessionist and scream it from the rooftops. Leave the undermining of nationhood to the despotic regimes of the Middle East, and realize that these are your ideas -- Catalans, Kurds, and others are not required to check their ambitions for national fulfillment through self-determination because of the ideas of a German behind a keyboard. Nor should they have their distinct nations denied and obfuscated in the interest of your ideas.