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In October 2014, Mardin High Criminal Court No. 2 sentenced a
person from Rojava who had been brought to Turkey to prison on char-
ges of being a member of a “terror organization” on the grounds that he
was from the YPG. With this court ruling, the PYD and YPG, which had
not been on the list of terror organizations before, were recognized as
terror organizations.

Thusly, Salih Müslim, co-leader of the PYD, holds PYD conferences
under posters of Öcalan, and YPG militants carry pictures of Öcalan in
their pockets and put them up in their homes.

Retired Major General Armağan Kuloğlu says the following on the
subject:

“The YPG was not founded as an independent terror organi-
zation. It is an extension of the PKK in the north of Syria.
When events broke out in the north of Syria, a Kurdish orga-
nization appeared in the north. The YPG was established by
the PKK as an organization controlling the area and the
people in it. It is an organization under the control of the
PKK; it is an extension of the PKK. Since the PKK is a terror
organization, the YPG is also a terror organization.” 2

It is interesting that a fact known to almost all politicians and expli-
citly admitted by the PYD itself, the link between the PKK and the PYD,
should still somehow be denied by some individuals and countries. It is
of course a fact that many politicians and writers in the West are genui-
nely unaware of the truth about the PYD in Syria. In their eyes, there are
people of ethnic Kurdish origins in the southeast of Turkey and northern
Syria, and these people are only waging a struggle for freedom. It is
because of this lack of information that they fail to grasp the reason for

Turkey’s reaction to these alleged “freedom fighters” and why Turkey
refused to support the “Kurdish fighters” in the region during the Koba-

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