There's a sizeable Kurdish community in the UK, some of whom I know quite well, through the owner of my local coffee shop, a Kurd from Turkey who was attached to our Special Forces as a liaison officer in Iraq in his younger days.
I've not been to his shop this week (closed for planned refurbishment) but I can imagine their reaction.
I just don't know what to say to him when next I see him, other than that this betrayal is truly shameful.
It's happened to them so many times -- they've been promised support for an independent Kurdistan in the mountain regions where they live so many times by Western powers in return for their military support, and then betrayed, and left to defend themselves as best they can.
The Kurds have a saying to describe the experience of the Kurdish people after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the redrawing of national boundaries after WW1 -- "No friends but God. No allies but the mountains."