towns are now run by the PKK's Syrian
franchise, the Democrati= Union Party (PYD). As well as setting up Kurdish-language schools and Kur=ish outfits, the PYD ... fall. But in the eyes of an in=reasingly hawkish Mr Erdogan, the PYD is the PKK—and its main enemy is
T=rkey. The Kurds fear they ... Party (BOP) mayor, Ayse Gokkan, gestures at the Syrian town of Kamishli,=partly under PYD control.
When the Kurdish flag was raised over Kamishli, =housands of locals took