Terrorist or ally? A Kurdish militia joins the fight against the Islamic State
The PKK is fighting to defend Iraqi Kurdistan from the so-called Islamic State. The group, focused on Kurdish rights in Turkey, is categorized by the US as a terrorist organization./ The jagged peaks of the Qandil Mountains have long sheltered the guerrillas of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party ( ), a Turkish movement branded by Western powers as terrorists. Its fighters are now fighting the self-declared Islamic State (IS) in 's valleys and plains, posing a dilemma for the same Western powers. A steep, winding road leads to a cluster of ...
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