Villagers stand outside the mosque in Fis, Turkey on February 24, 2012. Fis is known as one of the first meeting places of arrested Kurdish Workers' Party, PKK, guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan and used to be home to 70 families but the Turkish military destroyed much of the town repeatedly in 1993-1994 in retalliatory strikes for the villagers show of sympathy to the PKK guerrillas; many analysts reflect that the pipeline route is an unseen border between Turkish and Kurdish inhabitied lands.