JOY FEELINGS MAGAZINE December 2015 | Page 174

worst threaten Turkey’s territorial integrity. Assad’s before the rebellion broke out a few years ago. Kurds make up between 15 and 25 percent of Turkey’s population, but no one knows for sure because the government outlaws ethnic classification. Most live in the southeast near the Syrian and Iraqi borders. Many would like to secede and form an independent state of their own. ISIS is still the J X