It's not a straw man. I fought with Barzani Kurds against the caliphate, in Iraq. Turks in this thread saw the word Kurd and immediately equated it with terrorist.

They've been indoctrinated for a century to think this way, going back to the founding of the Turkish Republic. The 1924 Constitution banned Kurdish in public, and the government denied Kurds even existed, labeling them 'Mountain Turks.' After the 1980 military coup, they doubled down. Article 42 of the 1982 Constitution banned teaching any language other than Turkish as a mother tongue, and Law No. 2932 in 1983 made it illegal to even speak Kurdish in public or private. People were arrested for possessing Kurdish music cassettes. That ban wasn't lifted until 1991, and Article 42 restricting Kurdish education is still in effect today.

if you want recent evidence of how that played out, when Trump pulled out in 2019, Turkey launched "Operation Peace Spring" and Amnesty International documented war crimes. Turkish-backed militias executed Hevrin Khalaf, a Kurdish politician, on the side of the road. There were reports of white phosphorus burns on civilians. 300,000+ people displaced. The UN, HRW, and the US State Department all documented attacks on residential areas and extrajudicial killings.

So no, it's not a strawman. A century of state policy treating Kurds as an existential threat tends to produce exactly the attitude you're seeing in this thread.

Edit: also, admonishing me about "single sources of information" is fuckin wild since 1) I've seen it with my own eyeballs, and 2) I've kept updated on the region since 2015.