[aristotleman]

A few "mountain turks" would like to kill "city Turks".

That's the issue.

[George W. Bush]

It's not "mountain Turks". It's Ankara's claims to the old Ottoman empire. And those are going up in flames before their eyes.

Ankara has a special interest in any land that was once a part of the Ottoman empire and which has vast oil reserves. And their plans are in ruins.

We and our allies have averted a Turkish conquest of northern Iraq to seize Kirkuk/Mosul. The Turkomen and the Kurds were just a sideshow in all this.

Turkey=bigtime loser in Gulf War 2