Ofcourse they can't change the map of Turkey and Iran both countries are too strong for to be disintegrated by insurgency.
If you look at it like that Ottomans shouldn't have lost any land to Arabs, Greeks, Bulgarians, etc since their armies were too weak compared to Ottoman Army. With foreign support and timing weaker armies can be a threat. Nobody has the army to strike at Turkey but I wouldn't say the same about Iran. They are preparing to start new rounds of conflicts in the region. The next coming war is the Iran war. They are already preparing the public for it. If you look at Syria you can see how it will play out. The US says they don't want a no fly zone but they created no fly zone for Kurds. They can do the same in Iran. Create no fly zone for Kurds and give endless air support for them to give them the upper hand. Let the Kurds carry out ethnic cleansing and letting the media only show what they want you to see.
i dont think they would think about any land unless it is majority kurds
Yes and surprising thing is that Erdogan worked/works with them on many occasions. He even made anti-houthi remarks. The power gap left in Syria was a good opportunity for YPG (Syrian PKK). This wrong and confused strategy of Erdogan will bring his own proposed peace initiative in Danger.
fighting a hit and run gorilla war is one thing but defeating a regular and trained army and capturing land is another thing altogether which is way beyond the capacity of Peshmerga, unless it has a support of another regular army.
kurds have acted like this:
you know ever since i was a kid i hear about trouble with kurds i wonder what started all this why do they want to have their own country why are they willing to fight and die to do so
agree that Peshmerga have been immortalised as romantic worriers fighting for humanity, freedom and all that. they have western military advisor's and volunteers among them , and maybe there is some Israeli support as well.
Soviets threatened Turkey and demanded parts of Turkey to be ceded to the Soviet Union. That is why we joined NATO. It was mutual interest. Today NATO can be a risk because it drag Turkey into an European war but we can always VETO anything in NATO and not drag ourselves in the war. So it is not black and white. People should know when to shut up and when to talk if they are not informed.
Turkey is not begging, it is Greece that is begging and is a humiliation despite being an EU member.
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And After Cyprus, they would say recognize the territorial waters of Greece.
