Why Turkey is posting paramilitary forces to its own cities *As published in Ahvalnews on 12.11.2017 https://ahvalnews.com/pkk/why-turkey-posting-paramilitary-forces-its-own-cities When the Turkish state needed help protecting Kurdish villages in its southeast region in the mid-1980s from insurgents belonging to the Kurdish-separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), then-president Turgut Özal began a “village guard” system. The controversial system, established in 1985, recruited villagers […]