<p style="text-align: left;">“After this election, Qandil will not remain as it is,” Soylu said during a campaign rally ahead of Sunday’s local elections in capital Ankara.<br /> The PKK has its main headquarters in the Sandal Mountains of Iraq near the Turkish border.<br /> The Turkish interior minister added that "no matter who is behind the PKK -- be it the U.S. or whoever" -- Ankara is determined the clear the area of 'terrorists'.<br /> Turkey has responded to those who said it could not enter Syria’s Kurdish enclave of Afrin, Soylu added.<br /> Turkey launched a military operation into neighbouring Syria in January of 2018, when the Turkish Armed Forces, with support from the Free Syrian Army (FSA), began to take control of Afrin. The Kurdish enclave, which was controlled by the mainly-Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), was fully seized by Turkish forces in March.<br /> Ankara sees the YPG as offshoot of the PKK and has vowed to destroy it.<br /> Reporter's code: 50101</p>