The Turkish government doesn't discriminate between ISIL and PKK, the banned Kurdish Workers Party. As far as Turkey is concerned, they're both terrorist organizations. So it wasn't a surprise that the Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that they'll strike any terrorist group that threatens the Turkish borders. So
Turkey bombed both PKK
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The ideal scenario from a Turkish nationalist perspective would be for the Kurds Yazidi and ISIL to wipe each other out, leaving a political and population vacuum that the Turks can then occupy.
Likewise, an independent Kurdistan would greatly complicate the US and Europe's attempts to cozy up to Turkey and the rest of the Muslim world, as such throwing the Kurds under the bus is the "smart" diplomatic choice.
In short I'm not seeing much of a "dilemma" here.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2015/0802/PKK-suicide-attack-kills-two-Turkish-soldiers-wounds-31-others-officials-say
Torn between multiple countries not of their own, I notice there is a great deal of sympathy for the Kurds. I suspect the recent actions by Turkey has only further encouraged this.
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They have as little concern for a unified Iraq or their Arab neighbors as one might expect from hardline nationalists who blow up babies to build a state.
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