On that night, a sniper shot another soldier dead. But the guerrilla force, whose leader, Abdullah Ocalan, was captured this year, enjoys nowhere near the military power that it once had. We lost a lot of people to migration. But not many are leaving now. We have a factory here.
People are free to farm their land.
When people don't work they get bad ideas in their heads. But now that there are more jobs, fewer people are thinking like that. Bayraktar and his officers insisted that Lice was all but pacified. One officer assigned to follow foreigners seemed offended when asked to keep his distance. We are completely integrated with the people here.