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The imprisoned PKK leader has urged for resistance against Isis militants in Syria.

Mr Ocalan, who is serving a life sentence on a prison island near Istanbul, issued the call to arms through his lawyer Mazlum Dinc.

“I call on all Kurdish people to start an all-out resistance against this high-intensity war,” he declared.

“Not only the people of Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) but also all people in the north (Turkey) and other parts of Kurdistan should act accordingly.”

The Isis offensive against the northern Syrian city of Kobane, defended by the YPG Kurdish local self-defence forces, has driven 130,000 refugees to seek safety in Turkey in the last few days.

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[-] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

If supporting terrorism invalidates you then literally every single group in the middle east is guilty.

There's probably a better metric than hurting civilians in one of the most war-torn regions of the world.

Perhaps we can use who has been killing Fascists and who has been buying oil from them. Uh oh that makes the anarchists in the SDF the good guys.

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