Very interesting topic!
First of all, its political whether you add it or not. A decision to not add is of course political too. You can look at it from a few perspectives:
-If you want to make it easy for yourself -- piggy back on someone else. Like we will add any country recognized by FIFA or something like that. Easy to handle.
-What will earn you the most money? I do think its reasonable to assume that the country "recognized" will care more than citizens of the country against the recognition. Hence recognize away!
-Its possible to make an educated evaluation of the situation, does the country deserve a recognition? Like, should Deash/Islamic State be recognized? Nah, I don't think we are many that would vote in favor of it, right? Maybe not everyone should be recognized.
From my POV, the Kurdistan Region is an autonomous region of Iraq. Not much unlike say Wales in Great Britain. Since its a part of Iraq, I can't see the Turks out there minding too much, or? So why not? Jeeves let the CEO of Nordeus know that I vote yes too!