The Fourteen Points were an idealistic but extremely influential set of peace proposals formulated by U.S. president Woodrow Wilson in January 1918 to end World War I on a just basis. Thus, they were also meant as propaganda for the Allied cause.
Wilson's 12th point declared that the non-Turkish minorities of the Ottoman Empire should be granted the right of "autonomous self-development." This, of course, would have been a blueprint for
Kurdish autonomy or even eventual independence. The Sykes-Picot Agreement between Great Britain and France, however, had made other provisions for these minorities, and Kurdish autonomy failed to develop.
Historical Dictionary of the Kurds. Michael M. Gunter.