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Here’s the reality: Turkey is pissed at the Kurds because the Kurds stopped ISIS head on, preventing an Islamic Caliphate from Syria into Iraq, the exact borders Turkey wants today. Had ISIS been successful, Turkey would have swooped in and taken over. That defeat began in Kobani in 2014, and Erdogan hasn’t forgotten. Turkey didn’t fight ISIS. Turkey didn’t fight al Qaeda. Turkey didn’t fight Assad. Turkey helped all these bad actors against the Kurds. Turkey even began to normalize ties with the Assad regime. Kurds are secular and are an obstacle to Turkey’s neo-Ottoman expansion plans. Had the Kurds been radical Islamists as Erdogan prefers, he would be their ally and would’ve taken them under Turkey’s wing and eventually absorb their land into Turkey. The pro-democracy secular Kurds also send the wrong message to Erdogan’s constituents, they’ll start asking questions, how can these stateless people gain so much in so little time? How can they not be defeated? How did they manage to create their own region right across Turkey’s borders? The Kurds made Erdogan look weak. For Erdogan, radical Islamic terrorists are not terrorists, they are fellow Muslims. For Erdogan and Turkey, the Kurds are the terrorists, no matter what. But the reality is, Kurds are survivors. There’s a reason every ethnic and religious minority in the Middle East has either disappeared or their numbers have decreased dramatically. The Kurds have gained in population, including in Turkey. The Kurds have established an army. The Kurds have implemented self-governance away from the status quo. This is despite the odds being against them. That’s why it’s crucial for freedom loving people around the world to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Kurds and against warmongering Islamist Turkey. The Turks won’t stop. But the Kurds won’t either, believe it. #Kurdistan is land of the Kurds, long before Turkey ever existed.