Civil Protection Units

"Look at the position of Kurdish women," a friend of mine living in the United States told me last year. "They impressed the American public with all those pictures of women fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant [ISIL]," he added. 

The Turkish government has estimated that ongoing military operations against militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the districts of Cizre in ??rnak and the district of Sur in Diyarbak?r in Southeast Anatolia would be completed within days or weeks.