Turkey's championing of the Palestinian Arabs in their quest for an independent State has come back to bite Turkey with a vengeance - as Kurdish Statehood is once again firmly placed on the political agenda.
Turkey became the first country in the world with an ambassador to "Palestine" - after its envoy in Ramallah, Şakir Özkan Torunlar, presented his Letter of Credence to "State of Palestine" President Mahmoud Abbas on 14 April 2013.