Gönül Tol : Turkey may be using the anti - ISIS coalition to suppress Kurdish resistance . The vote does not signal intervention against ISIL any time soon , she writes . It has ISIS militants threatening the Syrian border town of Kobani , inching ever closer to confronting Turkish security forces . Tol : The US has effectively become the West 's best hope for on - the - ground troops . The fight against ISIS has also empowered the PKK militarily , she writes .
Gönül Tol : Turkey may be using the anti - ISIS coalition to suppress Kurdish resistance . The vote does not signal intervention against ISIL any time soon , she writes . Tol : The US has effectively become the West 's best hope for on - the - ground troops . The fight against ISIS has also empowered the PKK militarily , she writes .