Berlin’s refusal to take action against the PKK, despite acknowledging the terror group’s activities, defeats the purpose of NATO.
While the EU recognises the PKK as a terrorist group, many European countries like France and Germany continue to allow PKK and its proxies to operate across their territories.
PKK leaders endorse links with the YPG. Yet Washington continues to work with the Syria-based terror outfit.
A Kurdish medium school curriculum enforced upon Arab and Kurdish students in parts of SDF-controlled northeastern Syria teaches the PKK terror group's ideology and prevents students from pursuing higher education.
A senior PKK figure was charged with membership in a terrorist organisation and sentenced to two years and six months in prison after 135 YPG/PKK terrorists were returned to Germany in July.
In light of its new policy of marking hateful content, the company does little to stop PKK-linked accounts, which glorify violence against the Turkish state.
US President Trump aims to declare Antifa as a domestic terrorist organisation. But the group has been in Syria since 2014 and its violent record well documented after a series of controversial decisions taken by the Obama administration in 2015.
Colonel Myles B. Caggins shared a video showing newly-trained female YPG/PKK terrorists who claimed the need to protect themselves from the threats of Turkey. He later deleted the tweet.
The Turkish president says that giving up the Russian missile defence system would be an interference in Turkey's sovereignty rights but is open to buying the US's Patriot missile defence system as well.
A new Gallup International survey of Arabs and Kurds in Syria finds that intra-Kurdish opinion is divided and that people would rather live under Daesh than the Syrian regime.
The US told the world it was only arming the Syrian Defence Forces (SDF), made up of the YPG - the Syrian branch of the PKK terrorist organisation - to defeat Daesh, yet it has allocated $300 million for the SDF in 2020
By selling itself as a haven for leftist ideologues, the terrorist group attracted young people to join its ambitious battle to control Syrian territory.
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