Mosul

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I understand how the Kurds feel, but the Turks are going to lose their shit over this.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/mosul-...-553087723

Peshmerga push towards Mosul with eyes on a greater Kurdistan
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Kurdish fighters have pressed further into IS-held territory in northern Iraq, and leaders are adamant any territory taken is theirs to keep

While the Kurds are often eager to say they fight the world’s enemy for the sake of humanity, they do not shy away from talking about their other goal: gaining ground for a greater Kurdistan.
By seizing territory from IS, the Peshmerga establish control over “disputed territories” - areas both claimed by the autonomous Kurd region of Iraq and the central government in Baghdad.
General Hama Rashid Rostam told Middle East Eye that ground seized by his men was rightfully Kurdish.
“We are fighting IS, but at the same time we have ambitions for Kurdistan: the Kurds as a nation and a people like everybody else,” he says in the freshly captured village of Qarqasha.