A barricade in Nur neighbourhood, in the southeastern city of Cizre, October 2015. The armed Kurdish youth movement, the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H), associated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has sealed off neighborhoods in several southeastern towns and cities by means of barricades and trenches, some reportedly packed with explosives, to prevent state authorities from entering the area.
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