Gönül Tol : Turkey may be joining the anti-ISIS coalition to suppress Kurdish separatists . The vote does not signal intervention against ISIS any time soon , she says . Tol : The PKK has effectively become the West 's best hope for on-the-ground troops . Indeed , Turkey 's reasons for joining the war may be more to do with suppressing Kurdish separatists and removing the al-Assad regime than with destroying the jihadist group . They are fighting alongside Turkish forces in Afrin and have been able to take over a large part of northern Syria from ISIS.
Gönül Tol : Turkey may be joining the anti-ISIS coalition to suppress Kurdish separatists . The vote does not signal intervention against ISIS any time soon , she says . Tol : The PKK has effectively become the West 's best hope for on-the-ground troops . They are fighting alongside Turkish forces in Afrin and have been able to take over a large part of northern Syria from ISIS.