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Journalist-writer Murat Yetkin recalls an odd incident where a
person who was tried and found guilty by KCK courts begged for an
attorney:

The thing that surprised us the most was the fact this person
thought it was normal for the PKK to set up kangaroo courts
within the borders of the Republic of Turkey, that acted like
alternatives to legal courts, and actually considered its verdicts
legal.

It is clear that this empire of fear built by the PKK in Southeast-
ern Anatolia is building a significant threat towards our people and
forces them to answer to these kangaroo courts. Yetkin makes a very
good point about the matter in the same piece:

These are "state-within-state" structures, which are called
"dual powers" in Leninist theory, and which we can call "par-
allel state"; this was also the basis of the "canton" organization

The KCK aims to seize the Southeastern Turkey through
insidious methods and to establish an empire of fear
with a communist, Marxist-Leninist philosophy. It
realized most of its goals during the ceasefire period
called the Solution Process.

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