Look at the map of distribution of Kurdish people
If Erdogan agreed to the formation of an Iraqi-Syria Kurdistan, then it is inevitable that it will eventually contain the Kurds in Turkey. if THAT happens, Erdogan immediately loses the south-eastern third of his country
IF he did this, then his support among Turks would dry up and he'd be booted out immediately
“realpolitik” (is a Henry Kissinger phrase, he didn't invent it, but applied it)
I loath him.
Erdogan from childhood has had a twisted world view. Not just because of his Islamist view, but because of who shaped his young concepts of the world.
The tenet's upon which Islam is built is bad enough, but his early fixation on Mein Kampf brings the worst of 2 regimes of thought together.
And Turkey will be destroyed by him unless he is checked. Imagine the butchery he will bring to the Middle East if he is allowed to rebirth ISIS and promote al Qaeda with an expansionist policy taking over 1/2 of the Middle East. Fueled by funds for the idealogically blinded EU. They still believe that Socialism is the path of the future. Bastiat punctured that illusion in the 1850's, too many did not learn from him. Millions of deaths at the hands of those "true believers" should have done it, but it obviously did not.
That said, the moral aspect of life cannot be removed from the equation.
I have a book in my library that is titled “The Power of Ethical Management”. In it is a sentence that has stuck in my mind for many years.
“The numbers can all be right, and the decision still be wrong.”
It is true in life, in Personal, Business and Government. That concept and my belief that good cannot be built upon evil cement my view of Erdogan the Islamist. (made up phrase or not)