[Skybird]

Rockstare is right - there ARE many different branches and tribes of Kurds. Some maintain alliances and relations of years and decades of duration, others opportiunisically turn their heads constantly, depending on from where the wind blows every new morning. Personally, for what ever its worth all my experiences with Kurds in South-Western Turkey were positive, we depended on them on some occasions, and never were let down or betrayed. So from a subjecitve point of view I cannot tell anythign bad about them. This does not mean that there might not also be others. Every herd has its black sheep. And the Kurds certainly have good reasons to feel bitterness about their historical fate. Its like with other people as well: watch carefully out whom you deal with, caution pays off. Not all Kurdish groups are the same, some are friendly, some are less so.