The author is chief foreign news correspondent at Anadolu ISTANBUL  The dizzying pace of tension and subsequent reconciliation between Damascus and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in January served as a catalyst, realigning not only the Syrian theater but also regional Kurdish geopolitics. However, during this process, the stance taken by KDP leader Masoud Barzani and northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), along with the rhetoric of the Iraqi Kurdish media, reignited the debate: