The Kurds are a politically divided group. All groups want at least recognition, some want a completely independent nation. Turkey is taking lethal advantage of the Kurd’s political differences. This “modern battle” has been going on since at least the mid 1990s.
Totally correct.
Erdogan has nursed a connection with Barzani.
And at same time practiced long term Kurdish cultural genocide. At times even mass murder and the world ignores by and large.