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3. Well yeah. Turkey needs someone to prevent the Kurds from forming their own country.

Tue Nov 24, 2015, 12:04 PM

Nov 2015

'Cause if there is a Kurdistan, about 1/3rd of Turkey will try to secede to join it.

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