“Kurds are the local residents, and they have a little trouble putting up with the Ottoman Turks showing up with a bad attitude.”
They actually fared better under the Ottomans (as did the Arabs in Iraq, Anatolia (Turkey) and Syria. The Ottomans left a lot to the local ethnic leaders as long as they did not raise up militant/military type opposition to the Ottomans. But that changed in Turky, Syria and Iraq after the fall of the Ottoman empire. With the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Kurds of Anatolia (Turkey), Syria and Iraq became a “minority” to keep under control.
As much as the leading political party in the Kurdish gpvernment in the Kurdish region/province of Iraq does not see eye-to-eye with the PKK militants that Turkey fights, the northern Iraq Kurds have to admit that it is only due to their persistant militance against the gpovernments in Baghdad that they have their own province in Iraq today. They must see that the PKK sees the Kurdish dominant areas of Turkey no differently than the Kurds of Iraq see themselves - deserving to rule themselves. We can argue about their politics (and on that I would not agree on all things with the PKK), but I think their general purpose is clear.
While your comment regarding Ottoman rule is more or less correct, I don't care.
It is Kurdish, Greek, Persian, Syrian and Russian Business, not ours.
I can live just fine with Kurds as my neighbors, I have no designs on their women or children, however they are not my neighbors.
Not so with Ottomans or their Legacy Turks, my ancestors had good reason to mount them on stakes.