[ninenot]

Briefly, Turkey wants control of Kurdistan.

The Kurds want control of Kurdistan, which includes a bunch of Northern Iraq--more of NI than the Kurds currently occupy.

If the Kurds think they have control over additional territory, the Turks will be interested in the same territory.

But we want to keep Turkey OUTTA there.

So we don't want Kurds taking territory which the Turks will try to take later on.

Not clear to me, either.

[plain talk]

Yes, Turkish Kurds = Turds