YPG is not PKK but Ocalan is leader of both

Continuing to criminalize the Kurdish freedom movement in Turkey and strengthening Turkish authoritarianism serves no one but President Erdogan and his neo-Ottoman, Islamist-nationalist agenda.

Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) members walk at a checkpoint near the Syrian Kurdish town of Efrin in 2014. A picture of Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is seen in the background

(photo credit: REUTERS)

ByKAMAL CHOMANI

NOVEMBER 25, 2018 11:02

Updated: NOVEMBER 25, 2018 14:38

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