[TheBattman]

Please excuse my ignorance, but wha't is Turkey's objection to an Kurdish state?

[Redcloak]

wha't is Turkey's objection to an Kurdish state?

Perhaps the fear that it would serve as a base for Kurdish terror groups a la the way PA zones serve as bases for Palestinian terrorists.

[mamelukesabre]

The kurds in turkey are struggling for independence, or some measure of it at least. The turks fear that a kurdish state carved out of iraq would make the kurds in turkey try for something similar. In other words, the turks fear that a kurdish state in iraq could encourage a kurdish secession in turkey, which means a full blown civil war or ethnic cleansing like what happened in yugoslavia.