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Turkeys been our ally for a long time, why should be betray them.[?]

The Turks have long brutally suppressed Kurdish nationalism and a Kurdish state on their border is one thing they don't want.

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"The Turks have long brutally suppressed Kurdish nationalism and a Kurdish state on their border is one thing they don't want."

Exactly because that Kurdish state would fight Turkey for land Turkey currently has. Why should we do that to our allies? Even now before a state, communist Kurdish groups are committing terrorism across the Iraq/Turkey border.