Insight Turkey
Insight Turkey
Challenging ideas
On Turkish politics and International affairs

Author

Kyle Orton

Freelance Wrtier, UK
Kyle Orton
The Secular Foreign Fighters of the West in Syria
July 20, 2018
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) operates under the names of the Democratic Union Party and the People’s Protection Units in Syria. The PKK is registered as a terrorist group by most western governments, the European Union and Turkey, where it originated as a separatist organization. Nonetheless, the YPG has been the partner of the United States-led coalition in Syria against the ISIS. The strengthening of the YPG/PKK and its political messaging has brought in a flow of western foreign fighters. Some of these fighters are now returning to their homelands with indications that they are bringing security problems with them.

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