The Mubarak regime kept Bedouin radicalism at bay, but Morsi opened the floodgates. He stopped any serious security regimen and encouraged Hamas in the neighboring Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy held up the delivery of helicopters meant to counter the Al Qaeda threat. The rise of the Islamic State has only radicalized things further. The Ansar Bait al-Maqdis group targeting police and Egyptian soldiers stationed in the Sinai pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in 2014... But be it in Syria, Iraq, the Gaza Strip, and now Turkey, there is an uncomfortable pattern emerging of the Turkish state backing the most radical Islamist movements in the region.Turkey hasn't done any such thing -- Iran has, and this isn't new, it's been going on since the mullahcracy overthrew the Iranian gov't and instituted dictatorship. The Turks have been fighting against Kurdish independence, a goal the US should be supporting, at the expense of the failed states of Iraq and Syria, and the Islamofascist states of Iran and Turkey.
Why should the US support Turkey against the Kurds? There have been numerous reports that Turkey is allowing ISIS forces border access in and out of Syria. Turkey has also recognized ISIS diplomatically.
I would think it prudent to support the Kurds in establishing their own autonomy as a buffer between Turkey, Iraq, and Syria in order to curtail ISIS movements across borders, and help interdict their logistics..