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Cemil Bayik, co-founder and a senior leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), told the BBC that the party is ready to intensify its fight against Turkey. Bayik reportedly said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was "escalating this war," which has turned parts of the southeast into war zones.

"The Kurds will defend themselves to the end, so long as this is the Turkish approach -- of course the PKK will escalate the war," Bayik reportedly said, adding that "we don't want to separate from Turkey and set up a state."

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