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Karayilan: PKK militia "should now intervene" to defend "resistance"
Words by HPG leader announce intensification of Kurdish-Turkish conflict
In recent weeks, sources in the Kurdish movement had told Natonalia that April would witness an intensification of HPG actions in North Kurdistan (Turkey).
Now Karayilan himself says that the HPG "should be active in rural areas in order to show solidarity with the resistance in urban areas," the commander told the PKK-linked Firat News agency.
Indeed, since July 2015 North Kurdish cities have become the main areas of the armed conflict, most remarkably the Sur district in Amed (Diyarbakir), Cizîr (Cizre) and Nisêbîn (Nusaybin). On the Kurdish side, youth militias (the YDG-H) have taken a central role.
Karayilan insisted on the demand for autonomy for Kurds within Turkey, a demand, he said, that amounts to "a universal right."