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Young guns rule their turf in Turkey

Members of the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement, a youth group linked to the PKK, control the streets by force of arms in some parts of southeastern Turkey.

Mahmut Bozarslan
Mahmut Bozarslan
Oct 7, 2015
Armed members of YDG-H (back facing), youth wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), stroll at a street in Silvan, near the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, August 17, 2015. The PKK has attacked military targets on a near-daily basis since the Turkish government launched air strikes on rebel camps in northern Iraq on July 25, wrecking a two-year-old ceasefire. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar - RTX1OIE1
Armed members of the YDG-H (back facing), the supposed youth wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, patrol a street in Silvan, near the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, Aug. 17, 2015. — REUTERS/Sertac Kayar

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