Page 181 - America's Failure to Perceive the PKK

He explains the despotic atmosphere in the same article as fol-
lows:

Kobani Kurds are careful with public criticism of the PYD, fear-
ing retaliation. None who are critical agree to their family
names being published. The party [PYD] can make life very dif-
ficult for dissenters.

The same article mentions the difference between the perspective

of certain circles in the West and what Dettmer saw there, and pro-
vides evidence that shows Kobane is, in fact, under the control of the
PKK:

According to a Human Rights
Watch report, children in
Rojava are given guns and
used as militants. Since this
policy of forced enrolment of
children as soldiers is still
continuing, our Kurdish brothers in the region are constantly
fleeing to Turkey to escape repression by the PYD.
The child militant on the left is wearing a YPJ armband, repre-
senting the YPG Women's Defense Units.

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