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The American government is close with the Kurdish peshmerga in Iraq but considers the PKK, Turkey’s main Kurdish party, a terrorist group. Now that the PKK is playing a bigger role in fighting ISIS, the US may find itself helping those “terrorists.”
Turkey is finally starting to acknowledge and accept its large Kurdish minority. After decades of discrimination, the government is moving to include them. But in exchange for that recognition, the Kurds may well be asked to back an expansion of the powers of Turkey’s president.