They are coming in waves. Paranoid about Turkey, they are attacking from right and left and they are making threats and extortions. They are trying scare us, intimidate and oppress us and they are trying to make us give in to them. In a bid to corner Ankara, they are attempting to conduct operations in cooperation with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), its Syrian affiliate Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the intelligence remains of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ).