#kurdish ypg

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Ten years ago on this day June 10 2014, tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, police and officers fled, leaving their weapons, ammunition, armored vehicles, headquarters and positions behind. We had to cross the border and take control of those areas to prevent ISIS from entering.

Mr.Polat Jan on X(+photos)

On yıl önceki bu gün 10 Haziran 2014'te on binlerce Iraklı asker, polis ve subay silahlarını, mühimmatlarını, zırhlı araçlarını, karargahlarını ve mevzilerini geride bırakarak kaçtı. IŞİD'in girmesini engellemek için sınırı geçmek ve bu bölgeleri kontrol altına almak zorundaydık.

X’ten sayın Polat Can(+fotolar)

10年前のこの日、2014年6月10日-何万人ものイラクの兵士-警察-将校が、武器-弾薬-装甲車-司令部-陣地を残して遁走した。

我々は国境を越え、ISの侵入を防ぐためにそれらの地域を制圧しなければならなかった。

Xよりポラト･ジャン氏(画像とも)

[nando161mando]

5 years Women Defend Rojava – We will continue our struggle with even more determination

In 2018, Turkey attacked and occupied Afrîn, and in 2019, Gîre Spi and Serêkanîye. In response, the Kurdish Women’s Movement (Kongra Star) called for international support. Since then, the campaign Women Defend Rojava gathers many internationalist solidarity activities with the Women’s Revolution and the people of Rojava.

For 5 years we have been organizing in more than 36 committees around the world. We have took actions, published leaflets, books and dossiers, we have organized education, information events and delegations.

Today again, the people of Syria and the whole Middle East are under attack. At a time when the destruction by capitalist patriarchy is intensifying and war is spreading all over the world Islamist gangs, fed by the Turkish state, are terrorizing the people and continuing the policies of genocide and feminicide. This attacks are against Rojava and our hope for peace in the Middle East.

https://womendefendrojava.net/en/2024/12/04/5-years-women-defend-rojava-we-will-continue-our-struggle-with-even-more-determination/

[heretic-child]

YPG guerrillas on fighting against ISIS.

Born From Urgency (2017)

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Mainblog: @destana-min

Silav u rez,

welcome on my page where I post mainly about Kurds and Kurdistan but also about West Asia and its population.

[gameofthrones2020]

France and Turkey’s Feuding Over Africa

France and Turkey’s Feuding Over Africa and how this is leading to over power both regionally and globally fighting for control

The Republic of France and the Republic of Turkey have not gotten along in the last few years, with the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, calling the president of the fifth French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, ‘brain-dead’. The big reason for this growing feuding and possibly rivalry is Turkey wishing to expand its influence in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa at the expense of the…

[tamamita]

if the rebels overthrow assad, what will happen to syria?

Syria will most likely turn into a Sunni Islamic emirate with a close relationship to the gulf states and Turkey, effectively turning Syria into a theocracy. This is (former Al-Nusra leader) Al-Joulani's aspirations for post-revolution Syria.

In other words, the country will look like another post-Gaddafi Libya with draconian laws.

The rebel groups are not a monolith, they are divided into many different groups, Wahabis, Salafis, other Sunnis, Secularists, Christians and many more, thus we will most likely see a continuation of the Civil war between Sunni Islamists and secular groups.

Re-emergence of ISIS in Syria.

Direct confrontation with the YPG and other SDF/Kurdish militias in Rojava and SDF-controlled areas.

Systemic oppression of religious minorities.

They will definitely concede the Golan Heights to the Settler state, lmao.

The Axis of Resistance will lose a major ally and Iran will lose a major supply route to Lebanon, which the Settler state will definitely appreciate as a major blow to the Shi'ite resistance.

Another US puppet state in SWANA.

[stillnaomi]

10 points on the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s Syria from Vijay Prashad

1. The Syrian state had been devastated by the war from 2011 to 2014, and then by the sanctions placed on the country by the United States and its allies. The Syrian Arab Army (the official state army) had never fully recovered in the aftermath of the major fighting and was incapable of taking back the main cities of Hama, Homs, and Aleppo.

2. The Israeli bombardment of Syrian military facilities had weakened the Syrian armed forces’ logistical and ordinance capabilities. These attacks had been sustained and painful for the Syrian armed forces.

3. Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the assassination of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah had weakened the ability of Hezbollah to operate even within Lebanon’s south, which forced the recent ‘ceasefire’ agreement with Israel. This demonstrated that Hezbollah was not in any position to enter Syria again to defend the Syrian government against any armed incursion on the Hama to Damascus road (highway M5).

4. The attacks on Iranian supply depots and military facilities in Syria as well as the attacks by Israel on Iran had prevented any build up of Iranian forces to defend the Syrian government. The weakening of Hezbollah also weakened Iran’s role in the region.

5. The nearly three years of conflict in Ukraine had certainly denied Syria the ability to call upon further Russian assistance for the protection of Damascus or for the Russian naval base in Latakia.

6. Therefore, Syria’s government no longer had its Iranian and Russian military allies for assistance against the reinforced rebels.

7. The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formed in 2017 out of the al-Qaeda formations, drew together various military forces from Turkey to the Uyghurs – with a large number of other al-Qaeda influenced fighters – and built up its forces in Idlib over the past decade. HTS has received aid and support from Turkey, but also covertly from Israel (this information came to me from a highly placed intelligence official in Turkey).

8. What will the new HTS-led government do regarding the many social minorities in Syria? What will the new HTS-led government do regarding the Golan Heights and Israel? How will the new HTS-government regard the Israeli military incursion in Quneitra?

9. This story is not over yet. There will be much further unrest in the country led by ISIS as well as the Kurdish groups in the north; already Turkish-backed groups are in combat against the Kurdish YPG (People’s Defense Units) and PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) forces in Manbij; US forces are already in eastern Syria, where they say that they will remain as a buffer against ISIS (and will therefore retain control of the oil); Israel also announced that it took over the Golan buffer zone. There will be tension between the governments of Turkey and the US regarding what the new HTS-led government must, and must not do.

10. I hope very much that the statements made by Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, that retribution must not be the new culture, will come true. The real fear is regarding the treatment of the minority populations. There is no word yet if the militia groups in Iraq will enter Syria. Much of this depends on what happens to places such as the Sayyida Zaynab shrine in Damascus.

[captain-price-unofficially]

Classic footage of a Kurdish YPG sniper having a close shave with an IS marksman, Syria. 2014-15

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JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava YPG warns Turkey to stop supporting armed groups [UPDATES]

People's Defense Units (YPG) headquarters has released a statement denouncing the Turkish state's support to al-Qaeda affiliated armed groups ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham) and al-Nusra Front…

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✽ #very important

US Chief of Staff Mark Milley: "We will begin a new phase of relations with the Autonomous Administration and the SDF on the economic, social and military levels.

#Mark _ Milley, "Our allies in Syria need to strengthen their defensive capabilities to confront any external aggression, so we will work to open academies in this regard to train their fighters on modern and advanced weapons"...!!!

Rojava security on Twitter (+photo)

✽ABD Genelkurmay Başkanı MARK MİLLEY:

"Özerk Yönetim ve QSD ile ekonomik, sosyal ve askeri düzeyde ilişkilerde yeni bir aşamaya başlayacağız. Mark Milley, "Suriye'deki müttefiklerimizin herhangi bir dış saldırıya karşı savunma yeteneklerini güçlendirmeleri gerekiyor, bu nedenle savaşçılarını modern ve gelişmiş silahlar konusunda eğitmek için bu konuda akademiler açmaya çalışacağız"...

Twitter üzerinden Yavuz Özcan

✽超重要

マーク・ミリー米軍統合参謀本部議長 ｢我々は、(北および東シリア)自治政府とシリア民主軍との経済、社会、軍事レベルでの関係の新たな段階を開始する。シリアにいる同盟国は、外部からの侵略に立ち向かうために防衛力を強化する必要があり、この点でアカデミーを開設し、近代的で高度な武器について戦闘員を訓練するよう努力する」...!!!!

Twitter/ロジャヴァ・セキュリティさんより(画像とも)

[nando161mando]

Xelil Osman Hem, nicknamed Apê Nemir, known as a symbol of the Kobanê resistance, joined the caravans of the immortals today due to a heart attack.

The struggle for Kobanê is a symbol of the Rojava revolution. Apê (uncle) Nemir had a very special place in this struggle. After the attack on the northern Syrian city, Apê Nemir resisted the gangs of the so-called Islamic State (IS) together with the fighters of the YPG and YPJ.

Only thanks to the YPG/YPJ and fighters like Apê Nemir was it possible to defeat IS, which poses a threat to the whole world, in Kobanê.

[heretic-child]

“We were like the living dead,” said the women of Raqqa while talking about the period when Raqqa was controlled by ISIS, adding, “The liberation of Raqqa was like a rebirth for us.”

This week marks the sixth anniversary of the liberation of Raqqa from ISIS. Long live the martyrs!

[dolcettamagica]

do you mind sharing some resources or giving some info that could help teach about what's going on in Kurdistan?

OF COURSE OMG

kurdistan’s timeline

more in depth history

kurdish genocides

another source to genocides

and again…

kurdish groups (pkk, ypg, ypj) saving us from isis

abdullah öcalan’s take on women’s rights

so, first you have the understand that kurdistan has been colonized by four countries: turkey, iran, iraq, syria. iraq and syria gave the kurds autonomous regions (which is the bare minimum). rojava is the syrian occupied kurdistan and bashur the iraqi occupied kurdistan.

those four countries did (and do) the same disgusting shit israhell has been doing to palestine, since 1923: prohibited the language, the national colors (turkey has prohibited new adidas shoes a few days bc they have red, green and yellow😭), raped women and kids, use illegal chemical weapons (the last time? two years ago), deporte them, genocides, even cutting off olive tress of kurds and so on.

iran hates the kurds with a burning passion, especially bc jin, jiyan, azadi was started by the kurdish freedom movement (pkk) centuries ago.

the most hate tolds the turkish regime. turkey’s crimes against kurds are ENDLESS. the worst being the dersim massacre. turkey also collaborated with ISIS to kill kurds in rojava. at the beginning of last october erdogan started to bomb rojava again!, citizens and even mosques. if you want all the crimes turkey has done to kurde you should ask for an extra ask cause turkey is the absolute worst.

the best news site regarding kurdistan is anf

you can also follow @/newsfromkurdistan on instagram.

[notsoterriblymisanthropic]

everyone who's more critical of HTS than me is a War on Terror islamophobe and everyone who's less critical of HTS than me is a bloodthirsty supporter of fundamentalist reaction and everyone who's more enthusiastic about the YPG/SDF than me is a mindless Kurdish nationalist and everyone who's less enthusiastic about the YPG/SDF than me is a counter-revolutionary do-nothing and

[beardedmrbean]

As Israel and Hezbollah settled into an uneasy ceasefire last week, armed Islamist opposition forces stormed out of Syria’s northwest, seizing the nation’s second city Aleppo over the weekend before advancing south on the road to Damascus. 

While the forces of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – an offshoot of al Qaeda’s former Syria branch Jabhat al-Nusra – surged inwards from Idlib, another assault came pouring down from the northern borderlands with Turkey. These groups – backed by Ankara and calling themselves the Syrian National Army – began to seize territory northeast of Aleppo, including the town of Tal Rifaat and surrounding villages on December 1. 

But Tal Rifaat was not being held by Assad’s loyalists. Instead, the Syrian National Army has once again set its sights on territory held by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), the iron core of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) – a key Western ally in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group. 

The fighting has been fierce. Already, tens of thousands of Kurds have begun the long winter march east across the Euphrates River, where the Kurdish-led SDF still holds sway. In Aleppo, where SDF troops have held the Kurdish neighbourhoods of Ashrafiyeh and Sheikh Maqsoud throughout the civil war, the triumphant HTS negotiated the Kurdish troops' withdrawal from the city, weapons still in hand. Hours after Aleppo fell, footage emerged of convoys of Kurdish fighters filing out of the city under the watchful gaze of HTS troops.

Worse may await them beyond the city limits. Having seized a hard-won autonomy in the early days of the Syrian Civil War, the country’s Kurds have for the past few years come under heavy assault by Turkey and the Syrian armed groups that it backs. Ankara views the autonomous Kurdish regions in Syria as a creation and extension of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), a group that has for years fought for Kurdish self-rule and is banned in Turkey as a terrorist organisation. 

Now, with Assad's global allies exhausted by wars of attrition in Ukraine and Lebanon, Ankara seems once again set on strangling the Kurdish dream of self-governance in the crib.

Surrender or die

Fawaz Gerges, professor of international relations at the London School of Economics, said that the militants' lightning assault could cost the Kurds dearly. 

“The Kurds stand to lose the most,” he said. “Their very autonomy, the security of their communities. I think Turkey has been biding its time and waiting for the right moment to strike, and the pro-Turkish opposition forces have really launched a shock attack, not only against the Assad government, but even against the Kurds. In Aleppo, the Kurds were told either to surrender or to die – and they decided to surrender.”

While HTS appears to be trying to avoid direct clashes with Kurdish forces, Kurdish civilians now living under the banners of the SNA have reported having their homes seized by Turkish-backed troops. As many as half a million Kurds are believed to live in Aleppo and surrounding towns and villages west of the Euphrates. Just what their lives are likely to be like under the new dispensation remains a question that few are keen to learn the answer to. 

Dara Salam, a teaching fellow at SOAS University of London's department of politics and international studies, said that Kurdish communities in Syria's northwest were now once again at the mercy of Ankara's ambitions.

“The sole aim of Turkey-backed SNA is to implement Turkey's Syria policy, that is, destroying the Kurdish entity and having the upper hand over Assad's regime in Syria,” he said. “As the conflict in the past days unravels, Kurds once again face displacement, massacres and persecution at the hands of these jihadi-Islamist groups in many places like Aleppo, Tal Rifaat and Shahba.”

For years now, that policy has been put into increasingly bloody practice. In 2018, Turkish air strikes heralded the seizure of Afrin, the western-most canton of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria – more commonly known as Rojava. The occupying SNA has been accused of leading campaigns of mass violence against the Kurdish civilian population. 

Dastan Jasim, a research fellow at the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies, said Syria's Kurds had good reason to be fearful given what she described as years of abuses against Kurdish communities in parts of the country's northwest held by the SNA and Islamist opposition groups.

"The only basis on which Kurds can judge that question is their own experience," she said. "We’re heading towards six years of occupation of Afrin, for example, and Kurdish life in Afrin is a living hell – it’s basically impossible. Sexual violence is rampant, there have been kidnappings of people – just ordinary Kurdish people that are accused out of the blue of being PKK sympathisers are being abducted and killed."

‘In the eye of the storm’

Jasim said that the country's Kurdish communities had long struggled to find a place within the broader array of opposition forces that rose up against Assad more than a decade ago. 

“In 2011 when the opposition came up, let’s remember that especially in Aleppo the Kurdish neighbourhoods were very active when it was about protesting against Assad,” she said. “People were obviously not happy with the situation – there have been many Kurdish uprisings that were attacked very violently. But at the same time, the Kurds saw there was no space for them, there was no space for a discussion of Kurdish autonomy, Kurdish self-rule. A lot of the elements are very nationalist, and that’s what we’re seeing right now.”

Having proved themselves to be a fierce and disciplined force against the emerging Islamic State group, the Kurds soon found themselves leading the US-backed SDF. Despite frictions between Washington and Ankara over US support for what Turkey considered to be violent separatist groups, the SDF played a crucial role in reclaiming territory from the Islamic State group. 

Since then, though, the Kurds have been increasingly isolated. In 2019, then US president Donald Trump announced his plans to pull the last remaining American troops from Syria, leaving the Kurds undefended in the face of Turkey's advance. 

Although Trump's generals managed to convince the president to keep a contingent of troops in the region to secure oil fields, guard against Islamic State group remnants and maintain pressure on Iran, it was a bitter blow for a community already under assault by a US ally and NATO member. Now, with Israel hammering Iran-backed groups across Syria and Trump set to return to the White House in January, Gerges said that forces across the Middle East were anxious to strengthen their hands before inauguration day. 

“This is just the beginning – I think what Turkey and its Syrian allies are trying to do is to really basically change the current balance of power on the Turkish-Syrian borders before Trump enters the White House,” he said. “They’re using the retreat of the Assad forces as a means to weaken and degrade the pro-American Kurdish forces. All in all it’s not just that the Assad government is losing territories, but I think the Kurds are also in the eye of the storm. And I think by the end of the current round, their areas will shrink, their power will be degraded and they will be facing bitter choices.”

Gerges said that the next days and weeks of fighting could determine the very survival of the Kurds' long-held dream of self-governance. 

“This is what’s going on in the Kurds’ minds – that’s why they called a general mobilisation,” he said. “This is one of the few times that they’re facing in their view a threat of this dimension. It’s no longer really a military threat, it goes to the very heart of what they’ve been trying to achieve since 2011 – full autonomy and a pathway to statehood.”