Earlier this week, Murat Karayilan, the acting leader of the PKK, said his fighters had crossed the Turkish border and positioned themselves 35 kilometers inside Turkish territory.
“In response to the Turkish military bombing our villages and terrorizing our people every day, our guerrillas want to expand their territory and fortify their positions,” Karayilan said.
Karayilan added that the idea of borders is history and that his group would not be abiding by any boundaries.
“Our guerrillas have taken position near Shemzinan. All the Turkish efforts to expel them have been fruitless,” he said.
Comment: The increased PKK military activity could be an opportunistic tactic to profit from the shift of Turkish military force to the Syrian border. It could also be an act of solidarity with the PYD Syrian Kurdish forces to try and draw the attention of the Turkish military away from an emerging autonomous Western Kurdistan.
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