[MinorityRepublican]

They may be Muslims, but they’re persecuted and murdered by non-Kurdish Muslims, and while this may not necessarily be better, they have a large number of Suffis among them, which are distinguishable from Sunni and Shiite Islam, one way or another. Enemy of enemy = Friend.

In Turkey, Christianity has attracted a number of converts both among Kurds and Turks in the past decade. In Iraqi Kurdistan, several evangelical groups have been formed. While in some cases they have faced intolerance by extremist Muslims, their activities are largely tolerated by the Regional Government of Kurdistan (KRG) out of a desire to remain democratic.

[Eleutheria5]

I doubt that tolerance will last much longer. They’re increasingly aligned with Iran and Hizbollah, even though all those refugees have p@#$#ed them off at Syria. This whole democracy thing has been around for a while in Turkey, but its roots have always been in sand, not soil. Sooner or later, with friends like those, the old Islamic intolerance will rear its ugly head and roar. Think Armenians and ethnic Greeks.