If the US and Turkey have their way, there will be no independent Kurdish state. The Turks have mistreated Kurds since the creation of Turkey. Turkey, a strong American ally, gassed the Kurds just like Iraq did during the ‘Gulf War’. What most American leaders fail to mention is that the Kurds were gassed because the US had planned to use them as a proxy force to take Baghdad just like the US used the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.