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Years ago Turkey made it quite clear that it considered the Kurds terrorist and any Kurdish State would not be tolerated. They see themselves as the Sunni power in a neighborhood of Shiites

Of course he does. If that part of the world explodes, he fully intends to be in the middle of it this time, looking for land he can take from those that are defeated.