Parsiana’s editorial ("Nothing will come of them,” September 7, 2016) makes for grim reading. Starting from Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s (pictured) rave against Zoroastrianism, one readily perceives this as cobbled together by a double-dealing, pro-Islamist politician. His insidious blast against the Kurds of Diyarbakir as "atheists ... they are Zoroastrians” shows his abysmally shallow understanding of our noble pre-Islamic religion with its rich religiocultural philosophy and complex theology. Zoroastrianism contains theism of a very different order to the late rehash of an Abrahamic Sunni system that has acquired none of the refinements of Judaism and early Christianity.
The Kurds are mainly Sunni......