MSM is Gaslighting us on the Turkey-Kurd Conflict by Conflating all Kurds into CNN's 1990s Imagery of "Nomadic Refugees". This is not reality folks. Explained below Here is what these propagandists are not telling you. The Kurds of today are NOT the nomadic refugee kurds of the 1990s, they are 2 primary factions: the Kurd Democratic parties in the region that Turkey is NOT fighting (PDK/KDP), and the SOCIALIST TERRORISTS Designated by NATO, the PKK. The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by several states and organizations, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan,[33] and the European Union. However, the United Nations and countries such as Switzerland, China, India, Russia and Egypt, have not designated the PKK as a terrorist organization.^[wikipedia:pkk] Turkey is a NATO partner.  From Quora IRAQ - The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is the largest Iraqi Kurdish political party. ==> TLDR: Friends with TURKEY TURKEY -The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was founded in 1974 as a Marxist organization aiming to establish an independent Kurdistan. In 1984, the group took up arms against the Turkish state, leading to more than forty thousand deaths over the last three decades. The Turkish government is in negotiations with the PKK to end the conflict, and the group has renounced its claim to independence. PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan has been jailed since 1999, and the militant group has been designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States, and many European countries.  ==> TLDR: Enemies of Turkey SYRIA - The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) was founded in Syria in 2003 as an affiliate of the Turkish PKK. The PYD's official stance is that it does not aim to secede from Syria, but rather, to establish an autonomous Kurdish region within a federal framework. ==> TLDR: Friends with Turkey IRAN -The Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) is an Iranian Kurdish guerrilla group formed in 2004 as an offshoot of the Turkish PKK, with whom it shares some bases and resources in Iraqi Kurdistan. ==> TLDR: Enemies of Turkey, and US; affiliated with PKK Conclusion: Turkey is against the PKK.  WE are against the PKK.  (they are socialists, and designated as 'terrorists' by NATO) FETO (rhymes with BETO) It goes deeper than this though.  Erdogan was subjected to a coup in the same way that President Trump was, except by a figure named Fetullah Gulen, who fled to the United States where he has been protected--inexplicably--as an asylee.  The US is not being good on this, because Turkey is a NATO partner, and so there must be other reasons why this person has not been extradited back to Turkey It's too much for me to get into, but this is a very much bigger topic that is broader in scope.  George Webb has covered this 3 yrs ago extensively and his reportage is good.  However, Webb has not gotten too deeply into the entanglements of Feta Gulen with the Kurds and that is an area that the patriots ought to explore.  RIGHT NOW Ruh roh  Gulen and PKK ties.... Search also FETO, Hizmet, and Öcalan along with Gulen BTW It took me about 10 minutes to figure this all out (and 20 min to type it up) with the best help from the info below, and honestly I could give a F less about Kurds or Turkey. I'm just glad Trump has pulled us out of the middle east, though he ought to have done so sooner (I know the deepstate has been trying stunt after stunt to keep us there, so there's that.)