Peter asks, “Why are the Turks not working with the Kurds and joining to counterattack the AC from both their positions?” “Peter, you have to understand, everyone is against the Kurds. After several hundred years of Kurdish provincial rule, the Ottomans were the first in a long history to systematically displace or eliminate the Kurds using brutal techniques of scorched earth, massacres, mutilations, t*****e, and terror. With the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, the Western powers promised a Kurdish nation to gain the help of the Kurds in fighting the Turks. And as has happened many times since, the Westerners reneged on their promise, leaving the Kurds to fend for themselves. And then the Turks have suppressed our culture since 1925, likewise Assad in Syria, Saddam Husse

