The ignorance is hilarious . Do you think a secular Turkey would give in to Kurdish separatists ? The Assyrians offered Attaturk the modern city of Mosul to be a part of Turkey in exchange for their right to settle in their homeland . The secular Turkey you dream of rejected the claim , at a loss to it ' s own empire . am sure Brits would have happly given an oil rich city like Mosul to Turkey because they never supported rebellions in Turkey to stop her from annexing Mosul ! Turkey changed a lot since 90 s . Kurds have more rights and Kemalism changed too . Turkey won ' t return to 90 s and Kurd will have more rights but this doesn ' t mean Turkey will stop fighting against terrorist groups like Pkk and Dhkpc .