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Originally Posted by 4X4
So what's the big deal? Turkey just doesn't want to give up the real estate? Or is it personal? The Kurds have pissed them off so badly that they'll never forgive/recognize a state of their own? Sorta like Israel?
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The Turks are worried that if the Kurds get their own state, it will inflame the seperatist movement within their own country, with whom it has fought a lengthly civil war. It's likely that Kurdish state would eventually want to claim a large part of Turkey as their own. Turkey being the largest military power in the region outside of Israel and an extremely important ally for Western states makes it extremely influential.