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as the battle between the ypg and
Islamic State militants rages on with
the Syrian Border Town of kaban Kurds
throughout turkey joining the fight
against the Islamic State from all over
the
country due to a lack of military
intervention from Turkey anger can be
felt in major cities such as ankora and
Istanbul many people have publicly shown
support for militant organizations
mainly the pkk an armed Kurdish
resistance Group which whilst fighting
against the Islamic State in kab
is actually classified as a terrorist
organization by turkey and 14 other
countries in the
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speech for 30 years the pkk or the
Workers Party of Kurdistan has been
fighting for greater cultural and
political rights for turkey's Kurdish
Community turkey has historically
oppressed the rights of the Kurds and
whilst the protest show solidarity with
kabani they also represent strengthening
Kurdish
nationalism we went to the impoverished
neighborhood of Idan an area with a
history of police violence and
revolutionary movements it's also home
to a large Kurdish population and a brch
of the yd G the youth wing of the
pkk we're not maidan and we've heard
that two members of this community that
are associated with the revolutionary
groups have died whilst fighting with
the ypg and kabani now we spoke to quite
a lot of people here that have said yes
some of the revolutionaries as well as
fighting with the police here have
actually gone out to the border to show
solidarity have jumped the Border um and
are fighting with the ypg to try and
repel the Islamic State
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fore basically this uh these people in
this V just driving around announcing
that tomorrow there's going to be a
memorial for one of the people from this
neighborhood who went to fight with the
ypg in kabani and were killed just one
week ago can you tell me what happened
to the two fighters that died in kabani
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recently okay and what were they doing
in
kabani
and with these two people your friends
you know them
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so right now the March has come to the
entrance of ok maidan which is where the
police station themselves every night um
and this is kind of how trouble kicks
off here people go on on a March and
when the police are there usually they
intervene um and then people fight
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for basically the March came to a stop
and then a member of what is essentially
the young division of the pkk came out
and said that people here if they want
to fight they come to him they come to
their group and they can go to gabani to
fight the Islamic State and and he said
that every member of their community
that the Islamic State killed they're
going to go back out there fight and
they're going to get re
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of the pkk just came out in force with
Bal clavas on they got weapons um we've
seen some fireworks and we know that
this group are armed as well and it
seems to be they're moving up to the top
of the road to try and fight the
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police police are firing two gas round
down the street pkk us seem to vanish
but we're stuck should we make a run for
it
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police are kind of fenc the uh BKK you
in now they're attacking with Molotov
we're trying to make our way back around
but every time we go forward the police
fire at
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pkk young
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youth can I
see so they've got whole back full of
Molotov just sitting on the corner looks
like their planet in
advance off they
go
say the
pkk look like the you well this guy just
ran into oncoming five from a tear gas
grenad which have killed several people
in this
neighborhood
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for as about carries on down the street
the ydg hates they kind of run into all
these Alleyways in between people's
houses and they using the neighborhood
for their advantage because of course
they know the network a little bit
better than the police do um things are
still kicking off there's a lot of molos
still and a hell of a lot of tear
gas
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the police are moving further down the
road now and I think these guys aim is
to uh hit the fre police truck with
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a they were shouting the police throwing
molotovs at them and over the tanoi the
police said come on like come on to us
you know kind of provoking them this guy
said no no you come down here threw the
molotov at them but um it definitely
goes to show that the police are up for
a fight as much as these guys I mean he
just run off with two Molotov police are
fire around down here um and you have
innocent people civilians just caught up
in the
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beauce most interesting thing about this
is we've seen kids maybe I don't know 10
years old running around with B cars on
firing things off at the police here at
it's like they almost know how to move
they obviously uh clearly been doing
this for a long time um and the fact
that earlier in the March they're trying
to recruit people to go out to gabani
and fight and you might see these kids
as some kind of like you know skinny
teenager but you can understand why
they're doing this they seem extremely
militant
so after about 4 hours of running around
o Myan we've seen the yd G throwing
Molotov at the police seen them firing
fireworks we've even seen one guy uh
with a handgun firing live rounds at the
police he also turned it on us which is
a bit scary but we're all right um it
just seems that they're really serious
about this kind of militant thing in the
neighborhood and they say this is all in
response to kabani at the moment they're
saying that because the state here in
Turkey won't help the Kurds in uh in
kabani whilst the Islamic State are
attacking that they're going to attack
the state so they've fought back
fighting the police um to be honest just
been a
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