Kurdish Battles in Syria Raise Turkish Fears

Seyfettin Ibek, a Turkish Kurd living on the border with Syria, is daring to dream again.

The 50-year-old is hoping the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad will help add to the gains his people have made in recent years. Kurds, among the largest ethnic groups without a state, control energy-rich northern Iraq while in Turkey they’re in talks with the government to widen rights and end fighting by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.