#kurdish ypg

[melikemordemjaponi]

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)

[heretic-child]

YPG guerrillas on fighting against ISIS.

Born From Urgency (2017)

[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.

[valiantzinepruneprofessor-blog]

‏‎دووهەمین ساڵیادی دامەزراندنی کوردشۆپ پیرۆزبێت. DÛYEMÎN SALVEGERA DAMEZRANA KURDŞOP’Ê PÎROZ BE. دومین سالگرد تاسیس کوردشوپ مبارک باد. Kurdshop'un KURULUŞUNUN 2. YILDÖNÜMÜ MUTLU OLACAK. الذكرى الثانية لتأسيس كوردشوب ستكون سعيدة. THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION OF Kurdshop will be HAPPY. Ji kerema xwe rûpela me bişopînin û bi hevalên xwe re bidin nasîn ✌️✌️ @Diroka_korda 📆 لطفا صفحه ما را فالو کنید و به دوستان خود معرفی کنید✌✌ @Diroka_korda 📆 Lütfen sayfamızı takip edin Ve arkadaşlarınla ​​tanıştır ✌✌✌ @Diroka_korda #diroka_korda #NewrozPirozBe #newroz #kurds #kurdish #kürtler #kurdistan #piremerd #Wêne #wênefîlm #cıwanhaco #kurdistan #qamişlo #kobane #ypg #ypj  #bakur #azadi #ahmedkaya #rojbaş #amed #mehebad #adnandilbrin #aysa_șan #kurd #kurdo #kobani #şakiro @kawaurmiye_ @hozan__diyar @hunersam @seydaperincek.official  @denizdeman_  @hozanaydinofficial @azadbedran @mala.dengbejan @kordmusic @mehmetyildirim.official @komaserhat @kemaleamed21 @Mohammadkhani_official @sahiya_dengbeja @serhatcarnewa @tishk_tv  @tirej_urmiye_official  @kurdshop.official @candakurdan @civina_wejeya_kurdi @keskesor_muzik @dengbej_tv_welat @hemid_urmiye_officiall @denge_kurmanci_official @urmiye_muzik_ @evina.kordi @zinarsozdar.official @urmia_kurdd @kurdistan_nature_21‎‏ https://www.instagram.com/p/CqAmrCYDNS1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kurdistana-xwe]

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…

[rootjin]

dear radfems,

i want to introduce you to Viyan Antar – a woman who fought against ISIS – and the controversy that followed after her death.

Born into a kurdish family, Antar married very young through a marriage arranged/forced by her family. After three months, she got divorced and joined the ranks of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) to fight for the emancipation of women from the hands of patriarchal oppression in the region.

Antar gained international attention in 2015 when a photojournalist took photos of her and described her as "the Kurdish Angelina Jolie". Many media sites recirculated the photos, turning it into news and also comparing her with Spanish actress Penélope Cruz.

On August 30, 2016, three ISIS suicide bombers drove cars filled with explosives towards the Kurdish front line. Antar and other YPJ fighters destroyed two of the cars but the third detonated close to Antar, killing her. Her death was announced on Facebook on August 31, saying she was "martyred in battle against Daesh [ISIS]".

After her death, news headlines announced "the Kurdish Angelina Jolie has died," emphasizing the physical resemblance between the two as much as her participation in the fight against ISIS. This was condemned by supporters of the Kurdish cause including other fighters. This is how the controversy started.

The media's treatment of her as a person was seen as demeaning by many Kurdish activists, especially given Antar's feminist leanings. Choman Kanaani, an activist and Kurdish fighter who repudiated the Western media's treatment of Antar, told the BBC that, "The entire philosophy of YPJ is to fight sexism and prevent using women as a sexual object". He added:

We want to give women their rightful place in society and for them to own their own destinies. Viyan died for these ideals. In the media, no-one talked about the ideals for which she gave her life, nor what Viyan achieved for women in Rojava in the past years when she joined YPG.

Agrin Senna, a YPJ commander also lambasted the comparison with Angelina Jolie and said all of the women fighters who had died and had refused to live under ISIS’ rule were equal.

Look at their pictures, they are all angels, all beautiful, you can’t pick one just because she looks like a Hollywood actress, Angelina Jolie or Julia Roberts.

They have nothing in common with them. They prefer to die rather than live under one of the most anti-women groups in the world.

Rest in Power, all the women who lost their lives during their fight against ISIS!

BERXWEDANA JÎYAN E!

[captain-price-unofficially]

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

[ritchiepage2001newaccount]

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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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[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.

[melikemordemjaponi]

✽ #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)

[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!

[nando161mando]

Youth group joins HPG, vows to fight for freedom

A group of Kurdish and international youth have announced their joining the ranks of the People's Defense Forces (HPG) after completing their training.

In a statement, they declared their commitment to "fight against the genocidal attacks against the Kurdish people."

read more https://hawarnews.com/en/youth-group-joins-hpg-vows-to-fight-for-freedom

[beardedmrbean]

Turkish air strikes in drought-struck north-east Syria have cut off access to electricity and water for more than a million people, in what experts say may be a violation of international law.

Turkey carried out more than 100 attacks between October 2019 and January 2024 on oil fields, gas facilities and power stations in the Kurdish-held Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), according to data collated by the BBC World Service.

The attacks have added to the humanitarian crisis in a region reeling from a years-long civil war and four years of extreme drought exacerbated by climate change.

Water had already been scarce, but attacks on electricity infrastructure in October last year shut off power to the region’s main water station, in Alouk, and it has not been working since. On two visits there, the BBC witnessed people struggling to get water.

Turkey said it had targeted the “sources of income and capabilities” of Kurdish separatist groups it regards as terrorists.

It said that it was well known there was a drought in the area, adding that poor water management and neglected infrastructure had made things worse.

The AANES has previously accused Turkey of seeking to “destroy our people’s existence”.

More than a million people in the Hassakeh province who once got their water from Alouk now rely on deliveries of water pumped from around 12 miles (20km) away.

Hundreds of deliveries are made by tanker each day, with the water board prioritising schools, orphanages, hospitals, and those most in need.

But the deliveries are not enough for everyone.

In Hassakeh city, the BBC saw people waiting for the tankers, pleading for the drivers to give them water. “Water is more precious than gold here,” said Ahmad al-Ahmed, a tanker driver. “People need more water. All they want is for you to give them water.”

Some people admitted they fought over it and one woman threatened: “If he [the tanker driver] doesn’t give me water, I’ll puncture his tyres.”

“Let me tell you frankly, north-east Syria is facing a humanitarian catastrophe,” said Yayha Ahmed, co-director of the city water board.

People living in the region have been caught up not only in Syria’s ongoing civil war but also in Turkey’s conflict with Kurdish-led forces, who established the AANES in 2018 after they - with support from the US-led coalition - drove the Islamic State (IS) group out of the region. Coalition forces are still stationed there to prevent a resurgence of IS.

Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has described the AANES - which is not officially recognised by the international community - as a “terror state” next to its border.

The Turkish government considers the Kurdish militia that dominates the main military force there to be an extension of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebel group, which has fought for Kurdish autonomy in Turkey for decades.

The PKK is designated as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the EU, the UK and the US.

Between October 2023 and January 2024, electricity transfer stations in three areas of the AANES were struck: Amouda, Qamishli, and Darbasiyah, as well as the region’s main power plant, Swadiyah.

The BBC confirmed the damage by using satellite imagery, eyewitness videos, news reports, and visits to the sites.

Satellite imagery of night-time lights from before and after the January 2024 attacks indicated a widespread power outage. “On January 18th.... a significant power outage is evident in the region,” said Ranjay Shrestha, a scientist at Nasa who reviewed the imagery.

The UN says Turkish forces carried out the strikes in Swadiyah, Amuda and Qamishli, while humanitarian groups say Turkey was behind the attack in Darbasiyah.

Turkey said it had been targeting the PKK, the People's Protection Units (YPG) and the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD).

The YPG is the biggest militia in the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and is the military wing of the PYD, the main political party in the AANES.

“Civilians or civilian infrastructure were not among our targets and have never been,” Turkey said in a statement to the BBC.

But in October last year, the country’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said all “infrastructure, superstructure and energy facilities” that belong to the PKK and the YPG - especially in Iraq and Syria - were “legitimate targets” for its military, security forces and intelligence units.

[mariacallous]

After blocking Sweden’s bid to join NATO for nearly two years, the Turkish parliament ratified Stockholm’s accession on Jan. 23, reaffirming Ankara’s commitment to the Western alliance. A parliamentary majority that included the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), its ally the Nationalist Action Party (MHP), and the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) ultimately rallied in support of Sweden’s NATO accession. Hungary, the last remaining NATO member left to ratify Sweden’s accession, is expected to follow suit in the coming weeks.

Turkey’s support for Sweden’s accession long looked unlikely. By standing in the way, Turkey had a broader goal: to exploit the opportunity to undermine Western support for Kurdish aspirations in the Middle East. Sweden has been a sanctuary for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which Turkey labels a terrorist organization; it has offered political and financial support to PKK-linked Kurdish groups in northern Syria, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), and its military wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG). To get Turkey’s backing to join NATO, Sweden agreed to cut these ties.

Still, a year ago, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lambasted Sweden, saying that the country should not expect goodwill from Turkey if it fails to “show respect for the religious beliefs of Muslims and Turkish people.” Last September, Erdogan said Sweden had failed to keep its promises to Turkey to receive the green light, citing demonstrations in Stockholm in support of the PKK. Erdogan’s political ally Devlet Bahceli, who leads the far-right MHP, last year described Sweden as a “country that threatens our national existence,” adding that if Sweden remained unwilling to extradite Kurdish activists convicted of terrorism in Turkey, the MHP wouldn’t ratify its NATO accession.

Sweden refused this last demand, yet Erdogan and Bahceli still folded. This is welcome news for the United States and NATO, and it shows that nationalism and religious resentment ultimately take a back seat to Atlanticism in Turkey. However, Turkey’s stance on the so-called Kurdish issue will continue to sap NATO’s strength and credibility. The continued repression of the Kurds in Turkey is not in line with the democratic values that NATO purports to defend, and Turkey’s antagonism toward the Syrian Kurds puts it at odds with the United States. Turkey has now shown that it can bend, and in NATO’s strategic interests, it must do more than acquiesce to Sweden—it must acquiesce to a democratic resolution of the Kurdish question.

Erdogan’s and Bahceli’s statements about Sweden did reflect resentment among both the Turkish public and the governing elite. However, the target was never really Sweden but instead the United States, which many Turks now consider a hostile power because of its support for the Kurdish militants in Syria. Turkey sees the establishment of a de facto Kurdish state in Syria as the principal threat to its national security and resents that the United States arms and finances the PKK-linked Kurdish militants there. Turkey may have entertained the illusion that Washington would stop supporting the YPG in return for Turkey ratifying Sweden’s NATO membership.

Still, when it came to Sweden’s NATO accession, Turkey’s strategic imperative to stay anchored to the West carried the day. NATO membership remains as crucial for Ankara’s ruling elite today as it did when the country joined the alliance in 1952. Neither occasional clashes with Western powers nor Turkey’s business relations with Russia signal any latent desire to alter Turkey’s Western orientation. Geopolitical turmoil from Ukraine to the Red Sea makes it even more paramount for Turkey to maintain its ties to the West. Furthermore, Turkey depends on the United States to refurbish its air force and now expects that the U.S. Congress will lift its embargo on the $20 billion sale of F-16 aircraft and modernization kits to Turkey.

Turkey identifies as Western only in a military-strategic sense that does not imply belonging to the West in political-ideological terms—and it never has. Turkey shows how leaders who stand in opposition to the liberal and democratic values that NATO supposedly upholds can still embrace Atlanticism. Turkey was a democracy when it joined the bloc, but its democratic rule was regularly suspended by military coups without its membership being called into question. On the contrary, the coups aligned with NATO interests, as the military was loyal to the Western alliance and suppressed left-wing calls for a nonaligned Turkey.

In fact, NATO resources were mobilized in the service of anti-democratic forces in Turkey in the past, notably under Bahceli’s predecessor as MHP leader, Alparslan Turkes. A military officer, Turkes received counterinsurgency education in the United States in the 1950s. He played a leading role in Turkey’s 1960 military coup and was later connected to the political killings of leftist activists in Turkey in the 1970s. The latter campaign, led by right-wing militias, was motivated by the fear of a communist takeover. The Turkish military, the police, and the intelligence community benefited from covert NATO support and advice in their anti-communist campaign. No NATO allies questioned the role that Turkish security forces played.

Both NATO adherence and authoritarianism remain salient in Turkey. The Turkish parliamentary majority that ratified Sweden’s NATO accession was the same group of parties that made it possible to imprison lawmakers in 2016 by stripping parliamentarians of their immunity. That November, the co-chairs of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, and eight other HDP parliamentarians were arrested. They remain behind bars, in violation of fundamental democratic principles.

During the Cold War, anti-communism bound together liberal democracies and right-wing dictatorships, offering Atlanticism some ideological leeway. But NATO can no longer overlook violations of democratic principles among its members as lightly as it did back then, when the overriding goal of resisting communism conferred political legitimacy on authoritarian governments in Turkey, Greece, and Portugal. Today, as global forces pit Western democratic capitalism against Russian and Chinese authoritarian capitalism, the West’s claim to moral superiority relies exclusively on its pretention to represent democracy.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg rejoiced that completing Sweden’s accession to NATO “makes us all stronger and safer.” But democracy advocates in Turkey and beyond have reason to question an Atlanticism that is embraced by authoritarian and nationalist forces in Ankara—and in turn empowers them. The fact that a strategic imperative compels Turkey’s authoritarian leaders to back Sweden undermines the Western narrative that equates Atlanticism and the defense of liberal values.

Unless Western democrats and U.S. lawmakers begin caring as much about the liberation of imprisoned elected officials in Turkey as they do about Sweden joining NATO, Atlanticism will appear to lose some of its liberal democratic purpose. Furthermore, domestic repression in Turkey—and specifically the government’s refusal to accommodate the democratic demands of its Kurdish citizens—will have destabilizing regional effects. Ankara’s standoff with the Kurds will in turn keep the United States and Turkey at odds in Syria, standing in the way of their strategic relationship.

That Turkey has demonstrated that it has no other option than to submit to the United States and its allies reveals the limits of Turkish nationalism. It also offers U.S. lawmakers an opportunity to reassert the democratic purpose of Atlanticism. Although U.S. President Joe Biden urged Congress to approve the F-16 sale between Washington and Ankara “without delay” after Turkey ratified Sweden’s NATO accession, U.S. lawmakers should consider making the sale conditional on the release of Demirtas and other imprisoned elected officials in Turkey. Otherwise, NATO stands to lose credibility.

After a U.S. aircraft shot down a Turkish drone targeting Kurdish positions in northern Syria last October, a furious Erdogan vowed to respond, saying that Turkey has a “security problem” with the United States. But as Turkey’s capitulation over the ratification of Sweden’s NATO accession makes clear, the United States has little reason to worry. Washington should instead expect that increased pressure on Ankara to live up to NATO’s democratic standards will eventually pay off. A fully democratic Turkey would strengthen the bloc as much—if not more—than Sweden’s accession.

[feministdragon]

Sasha Lilley:   Let me end by asking you about, how you think that radicals can help push things in a way that we can unstick the situation that we're stuck in. I mean the prevailing ideology, as you've described, is one of really of a hopelessness about any change beyond the present. The present is the best.

David Graeber: They cultivate a hopelessness. 

Sasha Lilley: Indeed. So how can we struggle against that hopelessness? And I don't mean in terms of a cheering squad. But how does one counter? How should radicals counter that ideological campaign, in a way that you think might be effective, shifting things in a different direction?

David Graeber:    We need to look at both what's happened in the past and also what's happening now. I really think that, if we can't know whether a good society is possible, it's better to like, live with hope, you know? I say it's a responsibility to others to do that. I go further. I think there is a responsibility, to actually look at the possibilities for improvement, and take the risk. It is possible.  But if you look around, what people do is the opposite. They look around, and they just can't believe that good things really are happening, when they are. An example: I always get, is Kurdistan, where I just got back from a few weeks ago.  (2018)

David Graeber: And this is where the YPG is fighting against against the remains of ISIS, and now against Turkey, which basically had been the sponsor of ISIS all along, but now kind of dropped the pretense and attacked them directly.  

Sasha Lilley:  and have embraced a radical ideology. Radical politics.

David Graeber: Yes. The philosophy which has largely developed, has emerged from the PKK and the sort of movements of women within the PKK challenged its old marxist ideology and gradually Ojalan, the sort of intellectual leader of the PKK, embraced this stuff and especially while he's been in prison, he's been reading a lot of Murray Bookchin and took up the ideas of social ecology, democratic confederalism, but doing a Kurdish version of that, with a very strong emphasis not just on ecology but on women's rights and replacing those proletarian revolutions as women's revolution.

Gender has to come first. So basically, when I was (unintelligible), people said quite frequently, it's that, well we're anti capitalists, but we've learned from the 20th century that you can't get rid of capitalism without getting rid of the state. And you can't get rid of the state without getting rid of patriarchy. How to get rid of patriarchy? It's going to be long and complicated process. But making sure all women have access to automatic weapons, that's a start. You know, all those images you see of women with machine guns, that's not a coincidence. So that's also not just like, oh, they're desperate to harm anybody. No, it's very, very self conscious feminist ideology going on there. And the fascinating thing to me is why, aren't people all over the world, saying “Oh my God, it's Spain 1930s all over again!” I mean, some are, right? But the reaction on the part of probably the majority of leftist organizations is “This can't be real. They're faking it. They're pretending to be like libertarian communists and eco-feminists, just to get our attention.” Which is of course, first of all, deeply racist. But even aside from that, I mean, it's like the most narcissistic, absurd position I ever heard. It's like “that's right. Really they are a bunch of stalinists. This is the line. But in order to get like Western left support they're pretending to be anarchists. Like sure. If I wanted to fake an ideology to get international support, I choose anarchism. That's going to happen! Total idiots.  If you’re going to fake an ideology you’re going to be liberal or an islamist, those kind of guns tanks and planes ideologies. But to show something about the sort of defeatism that people just can't believe it's really happening. 

https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=298917