Dax you are arguing two mutually exclusive things now. You can't say in one post that the Kurds and the Turks have been getting long and then post about the Turks running guns into ISIS to attack the Kurds. There is no rough ridin' logic in that. Most importantly you are yet again bastardizing a complex group of people, the Kurds, into a homogeneous group so you can construct your strawman. Yes there have been large factions of Kurds looking for peaceful coexistence with a lot of regional autonomy, but that is in no way the whole of Kurdish society that you claim has been peaceful until this last election. One of the biggest faults you are having here is involving ISIS too much in domestic Turkish politics. Their issues extended well beyond that. The Turkish Kurds are going to feel some brotherhood to their people being killed by ISIS, but they have a bigger reason to hate Edro than his support of ISIS, and that Edros' continued direct attacks on the Kurdish people a political level as well as direct military confrontation. But I would agree, as anyone probably would, that a lot of the Turkish blind eye has been to weaken the Kurds as the advocate for an independent state. That isn't anything groundbreaking and is usually even included as a background in any Turkish gun running story.