In June 2015 Human Rights Watch criticized the YPG militias for accepting minors for service,[REF] picking up multiple earlier reports of teenage fighters serving in the YPG military.
Turkey is hostile towards Rojava, because it fears that the polyethnic and secular character of Rojava would encourage resistance against the longstanding policy of Turkification within Turkey and because it considers the existence of Rojava an impediment to its recent Sunni Islamist oriented foreign policies [REF].