3. Is this how the Turkish state has finished off the PKK? "Violent clashes broke o...

Is this how the Turkish state has finished off the PKK? "Violent clashes broke out today between the Turkish Army and HPG in rural Pulumur [500 kilometers (311 miles) northwest of Qandil mountains (HPG headquarters)], local sources said and Turkish media confirmed."

The PKK according to Turkey: Simultaneously nearly totally defeated yet controlling Northern Syria, parts of Iraq, having a presence in the Turkish parliament.

Simultaneously considered terrorists by everyone yet politically and materially supported by Turkey's NATO allies.

Simultaneously unpopular with most Kurds in Turkey yet able to draw enough recruits to sustain an insurgency against the Turkish military for 40+ years, gaining enough control of a Turkish city recently to provoke a military siege.

Simultaneously not any real threat to Turkey yet the large Kurdish minority getting inspired by the PYD is a significant enough threat to Turkey's territorial integrity to create a military incursion into northern Syria.

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