The problem is not how the Kurds are treated; it not like our history with Blacks, or Hispanics, or Catholics, or Jews. The Kurds can go to any school they want, any University, professions. They do not complain about prejudice: they want LAND.
Which is why I gave the parallel I did; hope you now see that it is indeed a parallel.
Unlike the Kurds, we had indenpendent states that tried to go their own way, and we beat the cr-p out of them. Despite their sovereigny (which the Kurds DID not have in the past). That's how we reacted to the situation here, in the good ol' U.S. of A.
And in the present of near furture, as "nationalism" in the Soutwest increases and calls to make that land independent --- which WAS once independent of the U.S. --- become stronger, what will we do?
I do not know what the Turks should or should not do. But I certainly do not feel like I can ride a high horse here. I am actually sympathetic with the Kurds, people of separate ethnicity, who maintained identity over centuries despite not having their own land. But I cannot see what the Turks should do. Would you give up the Southwest to go its own way?