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one with the PKK and that the Kurds in Turkey are always among
PKK’s targets.

The Human Rights Watch report is most significant in proving the
situation in question in the Kurdish part of Syria. According to this
report, PYD forces are implicated in arbitrary arrests, human rights
violations and unsolved killings and kidnappings. HRW met with a
number of detainees in prisons, who stated that prisoners were held in
the absence of any arrest warrant, prevented from speaking to their
lawyers, not brought before the courts and were constantly beaten by
officials. It is also reported that their children were given guns and

used as militants, and dozens of other human rights violations were
listed. The report explicitly emphasizes that the PYD is directly part of
the PKK terror organization in Turkey and says that ever since the
Syrian government pulled out of the region because of the civil war in
2012, the organization has behaved arbitrarily with local courts, pri-

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