This highlights another issue on which Turkey and the Islamic State converge: the Kurds. Erdoğan seems to hope that, by degrading Kurdish military strength and territorial control, the Islamic State will help him to achieve his central goal of diminishing the Kurdish nationalist movement, which has long been a thorn in Turkey’s side.
这凸显出另一个土耳其和伊斯兰国逐渐靠拢的问题：库尔德人。埃尔多安似乎希望，通过削弱库尔德人的军事实力和领土控制，伊斯兰国能帮助他实现镇压库尔德民族主义运动的核心目标，这一直是土耳其的一块心病。