Hozat has also been critical of NATO because of their backing of Turkey.[1] She claims that since the 1980s and 1990s, the Turkish state's strategy for warfare against the Kurds has changed,[7] that it is no longer using as many ground troops and isntead are using the Turkish Air Force and other sophisticated weapons against the PKK.[7] Hozat says that now the Kurds are experiencing the most intense kind of warfare from the Turkish government and that NATO is not speaking out.[7]