Turkey is the only country really in a position to give Russia a little wakeup call. They are well armed, and backed up by NATO, and far enough from Russia that Putin can't afford waste resources to escalate over something relatively minor.
That said, the whole area and politics is a quagmire. Kurds in turkey, kurds in Syria, turks in Syria, kurds in Iraq... Sunni and Shia muslims in every country...
That said, the whole area and politics is a quagmire. Kurds in turkey, kurds in Syria, turks in Syria, kurds in Iraq... Sunni and Shia muslims in every country...