Al-Monitor: Is the PKK worried by the YPG’s growing popularity?

The past month has seen mind-boggling developments in northern Syria involving the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its military wing, the People's Protection Units (YPG). For Ankara, the most glaring unintended consequence of the now static Operation Peace Spring is the newfound legitimacy of the YPG in Western public opinion. The YPG is an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which Turkey, the United States and many...