--- title: Why Turkey Sees the Kurdish People as a Bigger Threat than ISIS description: The Kurds' success against ISIS might encourage advocates of a Kurdish state across parts of Iraq, Syria and Turkey canonical: https://time.com/3974399/turkey-kurds-isis/ author: Rebecca Collard article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-28T10:48:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:43:16.872Z article:section: World og:title: Why Turkey Sees the Kurdish People as a Bigger Threat than ISIS og:description: The Kurds' success against ISIS might encourage advocates of a Kurdish state across parts of Iraq, Syria and Turkey og:url: https://time.com/3974399/turkey-kurds-isis/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8e372f114a55678d/69885cb5cd1bba15766fc77f/kurds-fight-isis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2154 og:image:height: 1212 og:image:alt: kurdish forces troops fight turkey isis og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Turkey Sees the Kurdish People as a Bigger Threat than ISIS twitter:description: The Kurds' success against ISIS might encourage advocates of a Kurdish state across parts of Iraq, Syria and Turkey twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8e372f114a55678d/69885cb5cd1bba15766fc77f/kurds-fight-isis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Why Turkey Sees the Kurdish People as a Bigger Threat than ISIS > Sponsored content. 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The recent territorial gains by Kurdish forces might benefit the ethnic group, which has long campaigned for independence._ by [Rebecca Collard / Gazientep](https://time.com/author/rebecca-collard/) ## Rebecca Collard / Gazientep Jul 28, 2015 10:48 AM UTC  Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters take up positions inside a damaged building in al-Vilat al-Homor neighborhood in Hasaka city, as they monitor the movements of Islamic State fighters who are stationed in Ghwayran neighborhood in Hasaka city, Syria on July 22, 2015. Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters take up positions inside a damaged building in al-Vilat al-Homor neighborhood in Hasaka city, as they monitor the movements of Islamic State fighters who are stationed in Ghwayran neighborhood in Hasaka city, Syria on July 22, 2015. Rodi Said—Reuters by [Rebecca Collard / Gazientep](https://time.com/author/rebecca-collard/) ## Rebecca Collard / Gazientep Jul 28, 2015 10:48 AM UTC As Kurdish forces headed to the frontlines to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) this weekend, they came under attack, not by ISIS but by Turkish fighter jets. “They were going to Kirkuk and Sinjar to fight ISIS,” says Zagros Hiwa, a spokesman for the Kurdish PKK forces. The PKK, The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, is a Kurdish separatist group and also one of the forces fighting ISIS on the ground in Iraq and Syria. They are now also under attack by Turkey. Last week, the Turkish government [announced it was joining the war](http://time.com/3972322/turkey-kurds-iraq-isis-syria/) against ISIS. Since then it has arrested more than 1,000 people in Turkey and carried out waves of air raids in neighboring Syria and Iraq. But most of those arrests and air strikes, say Kurdish leaders, have hit Kurdish and left wing groups, not ISIS. They say Turkey is now hindering, rather than helping, the fight against ISIS. “Most of our forces that have been targeted were forces that were preparing themselves to go to fight against ISIS,” says Zagros. Kurds are an ethnic minority that live in parts of Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran. They have been persecuted for decades — from Turkey’s suppression of Kurdish identity and banning of Kurdish language to Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons on Kurdish communities. Their leaders, from the numerous different parties and rebel groups that represent them, have long sought an independent Kurdish state encompassing that territory and have fought against their respective governments to try to achieve that. For decades, Turkey fought the PKK in a guerrilla war to push for sovereignty in Kurdish areas of Turkey, but for the past two years the parties have had a truce and were engaged in a peace process. In recent days, Turkey has arrested hundreds of Kurdish activists and politicians and hit the PKK with more than 450 strikes, according to Kurdish leaders. The Turkish government hasn’t said how may air raids it has carried out or who were the targets. Hoshang Waziri, a political analyst based in Erbil, says the Kurds’ recent territorial gains in Syria along Turkey’s border and their increasing political legitimacy in the eyes of the West, have made the Kurds a bigger threat to Turkey than ISIS. “The fear of the Turkish state started with the Kurdish defeat of ISIS in Tel Abyad,” says Waziri. At the beginning of the year, the Syrian side of the border was controlled by a patchwork of different groups — Kurds, ISIS and other rebel factions. However, in the last few months Kurdish forces have pushed west after re-taking the border town of Kobane earlier this year. They have taken a number of key areas along the border and connected the territory they control. Now the YPG, a PKK-affiliated group, which represents Syrian Kurds, [has semi-independent rule over contiguous swathes of the border areas](http://time.com/3932515/the-kurds-are-building-a-country-with-every-victory-over-isis/). ### Peek Inside Kobani After Kurds Claim Victory Over ISIS  A Kurdish man stands in a destroyed building in the center of the Syrian border town of Kobani on Jan. 28, 2015. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  Street scene in Kobani on Jan. 28, 2015. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  A Kurdish fighter speaks on the phone as one of his comrades walks past in the center of the Syrian town of Kobani on Jan. 28, 2015. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  A Kurdish fighter walks through the wreckage of a building in the center of the Syrian town of Kobani on Jan. 28\. 2015. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  A Kurdish fighter walks with his child in the center of the Syrian border town of Kobani, Jan. 28, 2015. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  A shell is used as a vase in the Syrian border town of Kobani on Jan. 28, 2015. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  An injured Kurdish fighter sits near the site where a projectile landed in the center of the Syrian town of Kobani on Jan. 28, 2015. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  Kurdish fighters walk along a street in the center of the Syrian town of Kobani on Jan. 28, 2015. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  A Kurdish fighter drives a truck with a heavy gun machine in the center of the Syrian town of Kobani on Jan. 28\. 2015. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images  A Kurd stands in a building as pigeons fly over in the center of the Syrian town of Kobani on Jan. 28, 2015. Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images Much of these territorial gains were achieved with the help of U.S. air strikes. The success of the Syrian Kurds, with the support of Turkish and Iraqi Kurds has enhanced the Kurd’s international profile and their self confidence. The Kurdish groups are being seen as the most effective ground troops in the battle against ISIS as Turkey sits almost idle with its well-equipped army on the border. Turkey has even been accused of aiding ISIS by allowing them to move freely in border areas and allowing new recruits to join them. “The image in the West of the Kurds as a reliable ally on the ground is terrifying for Turkey,” says Waziri. “So before it’s too late, Turkey waged its war — not against ISIS, but against the PKK.” Turkey has been keen to paint ISIS and the PKK with one terrorism brush. “How can you say that this terrorist organization is better because it’s fighting ISIS?” said Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusogl at a press conference in Lisbon on Monday. “They are the same. Terrorists are evil. They all must be eradicated. This is what we want.” But some see the war against ISIS simply as a cover for an attack on Kurdish groups. Of the more than 1,000 people Turkey has arrested in security sweeps in recent days, 80% are Kurdish, associated either with the PKK or the non-violent Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), says İbrahim Ayhan, a member of parliament for the HDP. “The victory of the Kurds against ISIS was seen by Turkey has some sort of challenge,” says Ayhan. “This is all seen as a threat by Turkey.” Ayhan says another threat came from inside Turkey. While Kurds in Syria have gained territory and international recognition, in Turkey, Kurds have gained seats in parliament. In the June elections Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) failed to get the majority it sought while the Kurdish HDP increased its representation. That left Erdoğan and the AKP struggling to form a government. Ayhan says the AKP needs a state of “chaos” to perusade voters that it is the only bulwark against chaos. As of yet no new government has been formed in Turkey and if that doesn’t happen in the next few weeks, new elections will be called. By that time Ayhad fears many of the leaders of his HDP party will be in jail and some even worry the HDP will be outlawed. 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Is this the start of the most heralded greatest Sunni Shiite war? This divide between Sunni and Shiite goes back to the 7th Century. The Sunnis Shiites have hated each other for hundreds of years. But there's another, somewhat overlooked player here. Iraq's Kurdish minority. The Kurds currently enjoy a semi- autonomous region in the north, but have long campaigned for an independent state. The more than 20 million Kurds live across Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Armenia, and Syria. Mostly Sunni Muslims, they share their own language and culture, but not their own state. That could soon change. While Sunnis and Shiites fight it out, it's the Kurds that might emerge as the big winners in the current crisis. While fast- moving ISIS forces are easily sweeping through parts of Iraq, a well- trained Kurdish army is taking advantage. Slowing the group's advance in the country's north. Here, ISIS suspects surrendering. They're made to strip for fear they're wearing suicide vests. Last week, the Kurdish security forces known as the Peshmerga took over positions abandoned by the Iraqi military in the oil rich city of Kirkuk. A city they've claimed as their own for years. Analysts say these territorial gains may be the Kurds best shot yet at asserting their long held territorial claims and gaining independence in a region they consider to be rightfully theirs. Here's how the Kurdish governor of Kirkuk put it to NPR. There is true danger of full secretarian war. 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