It was the latter thought that drove him to pickup his bucket and press on to the smokehouse, partly because he wanted to warn the intruder about the tiger, partly because he was filled with a frantic, inexplicable jealousy at the thought of some drifters seeing his tiger first.
Turkey considers itself the Turkomen's protector, and the Turkish press is quick to pickup on allegations of persecution suffered by their co-linguists, particularly if they come at Kurdish hands.