The Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in Iraq have already established a quasi-independent state along the border with Turkey. And the Democratic Union Party – the Syrian affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been fighting a guerrilla war against the Turkish state for the last three decades – is on its way toward establishing a Kurdish autonomous region along Turkey’s Syrian border.
但是，与伊斯兰国的战争对让库尔德人变得更加强大。伊拉克的库尔德自由斗士（Pshmerga）已经沿土耳其边境建立了准独立国家。而民主联盟党（Democratic Union Party）——库尔德工人党（Kurdistan Workers’ Party，PKK）的叙利亚分支，过去三十年来一直在进行针对土耳其的游击战——正在迈向沿土耳其的叙利亚边境建立库尔德自治区。总体而言，这些组织已崛起为与伊斯兰对抗的最有效的力量。