TURKEY’S invasion of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq is where its “occupation will be broken and the beginning of lasting freedom will take place,” the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) insisted today.

The Kurdish liberation group predicted the Turkish army’s inevitable defeat after Ankara launched its latest military offensive in the mountainous province of Duhok on April 23.

“The fascist and genocidal enemy can do whatever it wants,” a statement said. “It will not save it from suffering defeat and ending up in the dustbin of history in the face of the guerilla-led revolutionary resistance …”