Turkey is part of the Middle East by any useful definition, including Wikipedia’s [1]. The parts of Turkey where these groups hail from are also the parts that

Turkey is part of the Middle East by any useful definition, including Wikipedia’s [1]. The parts of Turkey where these groups hail from are also the parts that are the closest to the Iraq, Syria and Iran borders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East