The Kurds are going to eventually get their semi-autonomous zone in Syria as in Iraq. They have spilled to much blood protecting refugees and persecuted minorities to go back to the status quo.

Turkey can either be a part of the solution and prevent the now inevitable battle for the partition of Turkey into Turkmen and Kurdish areas, or help the Syrian Kurds and keep them neutral,like Iraqi-Kurdistan, to Turkey’s own Kurdish sovereignty problems. The Iraqi Kurds being neutral/ambivalent has been a godsend for Turkey’s simmering civil war, but that could change quickly by them targeting the freedom fighters in Syria.