Students feel the Ankara government sees them as enemies,not citizens, and hundreds are joining the PKKAhmet, and 21,walks past a house where a man is smearing wet concrete on a wall riddled with bullet holes. A young girl balances over a massive mine crater that scars the street, filled with debris and muddy water.“Look what this war has done to the neighbourhood, and ” Ahmet says,greeting the girl with a nod. A member of the Civil Defence Units (YPS) – formerly known as the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H) – Ahmet voices doubts approximately this new urban clash in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish south-east. “I believe in autonomy, but these methods are improper, and they distress us.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com