After the Suruc bombing by the Islamic State, Turkish forces bombed both the Islamic State in Syria and the PKK in Iraq, and rounded up PKK suspects inside Turkey.
Iran and Syria have stopped arming and hosting the PKK, in hopes of wooing Turkey.
Very conservative religiously, Hüda Par has emerged as a rival to the more secular PKK in the Kurdish south-east.
As many as 20 Turkish soldiers have died in clashes with the PKK in the past two weeks alone.
An Isis suicide bomber also struck a position of the Kurdistan Workers Partyy (PKK) in the northern town of Sinjar.
Mr Ocalan, who launched the PKK in 1978 promising this, now says some form of autonomy will do.
If the term 'lesser evil' is ever appropriate, it is in the case of the PKK in this instance.
Turkey condemned the attack and began airstrikes on Isis in Syria and the PKK in northern Iraq.
But some in the Bush administration say the Americans should actually help Turkey swat the PKK in Iraq.
Many Kurds are poor and unemployed, often victims of the army's scorched-earth campaign against the PKK in the 1990s.
My guide went on to tell me that no fewer than 22 members of his family had joined the PKK in recent years.
