Any independent nation that views minorities in neighbouring countries kin to themselves tend to protect the interests of thow minorities. This is obviously what the Turks and Iranians are afraid of, if the Iraqi Kurds would be able to form an independent country.

After all, the USA intervened in Mexico on behalf of the US people who had moved to Texas. You just have to look at the result of that.

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President Josiah Bartlet: Sweden has a 100% literacy rate. 100%! How do they do that?
Leo McGarry: Maybe they don't and they can't add.