To be clear: I’m considering the specifics on the war/genocide far more decisive evidence than whether there are pine trees in Kurdistan.
Hell, for all I know, there might be Kurdish villages outside of Kurdistan, in the parts of Turkey where there are pine trees. The most likely answer is that Wildbow checked if there are pine trees in Turkey and didn’t notice that there aren’t in Kurdistan specifically, but even in-universe there are still reasonable ways around this.
Also, this perfectly explains the other issue that made me discount Kurdistan at first:
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