This is thread drift - but I'm not surprised about those Kurds.

From what I've read, the Kurds in Iraq, who now control their own part of the country, not the Baghdad government (which they detest, with good reason), are getting ready to fight the Turks, if they come across the border.

They see them as invaders, who have been repressing Kurds in Turkey for generations, and definitely as no kind of liberating army.