“au contraire’, my FRiend. Turkey couldn’t be more pleased - and, in a when-pigs-fly policy change, are embracing a Kurdish state:”
I read that and I flat don’t believe it. Nearly half of the proposed Kurdistan lies inside the present borders of Turkey. The Turks have essentially been in a low-grade civil war for decades. An actual, official Kurdish state, the current leaders of which are actively hostile to Turkey and supporting their own local anti-Turk terrorists is unthinkable to the Turks.
see #9