That implies that their is no environment of oppression for them in Turkey and Iran, which is clearly not the case. Some of them are pretty bad ass it's true, but then so were the likes of the "Swamp Fox", the Green Moutain Boys and others suffering under British (and New Yorker) oppression in the late 18th century. Oppression continued over generations bends peoples minds, and they can take some time to unbend, even after throwing off that oppression.
Nope.
This reference was to their place in the "new" Iraq.