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Affiliated with the pkk have eye new political party that's doing very well in the polls. there's an election november 1st. they stand to do exceedingly well, to the point where they might help topple the government. >> is turkey retaliating against them for this instead of isis. >> turkish foreign policy sees everything through the politics of the kurdish question. inside turkey there's a large minority of kurdish nationalists who if they had their druthers would declare around independent state. they've been undergoing a peace process for about three years. it was one of the marked successin...

This. but there is another question that i'm hoping you ask me and it involves the kurds and is central to all of this. >> obviously, the kurdish question, obviously turkey wants to fight the kurds as much as it wants to fight isis. the kurds are ostensibly the help mates for america against isis. >> reporter: there is a map. and if you pull up that map, it shows a lot of things. that map shows the different sections of syria controlled by isis, by various rebel groups, by the syrian regime. if you notice in the top, there are two green sections right along the turkish border. those are areas ...

Drive world war i and the balkans, the bad fit between state boundaries and nationalism, the popular forces of identity, culture, language, we see that all over the middle east today and that's driving a lot of conflicts. >> the -- >> the sunni/shia divide and kurdish question. nationalities whose identities are weak. syria and iraq are both multi-communal states and they're not holding up well. we see these forces ripping them apart in the same way they were ripping apart the great empires at the start of world war i. >> and yet there's a kind of indifference on the part of the great powers r...

Drive world war i and the balkans, the bad fit between state boundaries and nationalism, the popular forces of identity, culture, language, we see that all over the middle east today and that's driving a lot of conflicts. >> the -- >> the sunni/shia divide and kurdish question. nationalities whose identities are weak. syria and iraq are both multi-communal states and they're not holding up well. we see these forces ripping them apart in the same way they were ripping apart the great empires at the start of world war i. >> and yet there's a kind of indifference on the part of the great powers r...