This is not journalism. This is a blatant attempt by @nytimes to justify and whitewash PKK terrorism.
By the same logic, Bin Laden was a ?hero´ to some?! Would you call Milosevic and Mladic also ?heros´ to some people?!
Turkey kills a leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers´ Party in an airstrike in Iraq, but the Kurdish militant was a hero to the Yazidi minority group in northern Iraq because he helped when they were threatened by ISIS https://nyti.ms/2PkJRUS