The Kurdish Female Guerrillas Fighting ISIS (Warzone Documentary) | Real...
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...