A youth group linked to the PKK is gaining considerable power in the town.


Cale Salih is a Visiting Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations focusing on Kurds, a Project Manager at the Institute for Integrated Transitions in Barcelona, and a Masters of Studies Candidate in International Human Rights Law at Oxford University.
A youth group linked to the PKK is gaining considerable power in the town.

Turkey appears to have overlooked the anger bubbling among its own Kurds towards its Syria policy.
![Children in Cizre at a protest over the death of a Kurdish boy killed in clashes with Turkish police [Cale Salih]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2015120101243923580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)