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In Qandil Mountains, Iraq, PKK women fight for  their rights. 


"We want a society that revolves around women", one says. 

"[...] one where women and men are equal, a society without pressure, without inequality,  where all differences between people are eliminated", 


says Rengin, the head of a female  battalion of the Kurdistan  Worker's Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan, the PKK). 


Rengin joined the PKK in the mountain enclave in 1990, when she was 14, after Turkish forces killed her father. 






Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan, the PKK 




PKK, having Marxist-Leninist roots was formed in the late 1970s 

and launched an armed struggle against the Turkish governement in 1984, 

calling for an independent Kursidh state within Turkey. 

The PKK's struggle is also part of the turmoil in Iraq and Syrian 

where Turkey is trying to assert its influence on a battlefield with many rival forces. 

In a BBC interview in April [2016], 

the PKK'S militrary leader, Cemil Bayik said 

"We don't want to separate Turkey and set up a state" 

"We want to live withing the borders of Turkey on our own land freely". 


Turkey continues to accuse the PKK of "trying to create a separate state in Turkey" 








The PKK suffered a major blow in 1999 

when its leader, 

Abdullah Ocalan, was kidnapped by Turkish commados in Kenya, 

arrested and jailed for treason. 


In March 2013, he called a ceasefire and urged PKK forces to withdraw from Turkey. 


The ceasefire broke down in July 2015.  

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Photos: the female fighters of PKK 
Accessed from  Pinterest

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