God forbid that I should try to correct someone on something that they're factually inaccurate about.
There's not many things that I claim to be an "expert" on. The issue of Turkey's relations to the Kurds, Armenians and Americans is one of those few things that I do make that claim to. I've spent the last two years researching these subjects for an extended course that I'm taking at a nearby college, extensively, almost on a daily basis. Beyond reading through mounds of historical accounts and analyses and books that take all points of view and myriad unbiased sources, I've also been able to get ahold of facsimiles of official documents of the Turkish, Armenian, American and Azeri governments discussing most of the relevent topics, except where such information is top-level security (the specifics of the intel-sharing between the American and Turkish armies, for instance) as well as copies of the PKK's official propoganda, which calls for "...death to any who oppose the glory of the Kurdish people."
Further, I've gone on a class-sponsored trip to Washington D.C. and met personally with numerous officials who have spent their lives dealing with these topics, including top Defense and State officials, and SIGs that represent both the Kurdish and Turkish stances, as well as the Turkish ambassador to America, and the American ambassadors to Turkey and Armenia.
The general consensus is the same: the PKK has slaughtered tens of thousands of Turks throughout the years, and while in the past the Turkish army has heavily supressed the Kurdish people in south-eastern Anatolia, they have never engaged in whole-sale murder or ethnic cleansing, which is what the PKK blatantly advocates and has been carrying out, on a limited basis, for over thirty years.
The point can often be made that "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." Not in this case. The Peshmerga are 'freedom fighters' that have fought to defend the Kurds for many years--the PKK, on the other hand, murders civilians on a regular basis. Once an organization ceases to launch resistance against military targets and begins massacring innocents, they lose any claim to legitimacy or the right to be called anything other than base defilers of humanity.
If I sound forceful on this issue, it's because I am. It's ridiculously frustrating to have people who have just glanced at a handful of news articles going about blathering like they have any idea of the history of the situation, which is too complex to unless you've devoted a significant amount of time to learning the histories of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic.
On most things, I'm fine with just stepping back and letting most things fall into the realm of opinion, but on this--no. There's not much room for moral wiggling on this--just like there's not much room for moral wiggling on the Ottoman's capaign of ethnic cleansing against the Armenians during the 1st World War.
