People's Defense Units - Wikipedia
WEBExisting underground Kurdish political parties, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the Kurdish National Council (KNC), joined to form the Kurdish Supreme Committee (KSC) and established the People's Protection Units (YPG) militia to defend Kurdish-inhabited areas in northern Syria, i.e. Syrian Kurdistan and the Kurdish enclave of Sheikh ...
Learn About YPG: People's Protection Units - The Kurdish Project
WEBYPG is an acronym whose translation means People’s Protection Units. It is the home grown defense forces of the Kurdish area of Syria. It emerged after the Civil War erupted in Syria and started to spill over into Syrian Kurdistan, now known as …
What is the Syrian Kurdish YPG? | Reuters
WEBNov 14, 2022 · YPG control was initially concentrated in three predominantly Kurdish regions of northern Syria - known in Kurdish as Rojava. The area is home to roughly 2 million Kurds and Kurdish-led...
What is the Syrian Kurdish YPG? | Reuters
WEBOct 5 (Reuters) - U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish forces said on Thursday that Turkish attacks had killed eight people in an escalation prompted by a bomb attack in Ankara claimed by Kurdish...
The U.S.-YPG Relationship: U.S. Foreign Policy & the Future of the ...
WEBU.S. military support for the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the Syrian branch of the Turkey-based Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), has been an enduring problem for the U.S. relationship with Turkey, one of its historical allies in the Middle East since World War 1.
People's Protection Units (YPG) - The New York Times
WEBWhat the U.S. Withdrawal Cost the Kurds. Mass funerals, wounded children, displaced families. This is what we found in northeast Syria after the U.S. withdrew its troops and Turkey attacked.
All About the YPG, the Syrian Kurds Dividing Turkey and the US
WEBNov 22, 2022 · The group is the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, a militia in Syria made up mostly of fighters representing the minority Kurdish community. Disagreements over the YPG have repeatedly...
An extraordinary tale: The YPG/PYD rises
WEBThe rough division of Kurdish Syria into loyalists of Öcalan (YPG/PYD), supporters of Barzani (mostly KNC, with its largest party being an ally to Barzani), and followers of other Kurdish parties (appreciating that there are also differences within each group).
Turkey v Syria's Kurds: The short, medium and long story
WEBOct 23, 2019 · Turkey wants to push back from its border members of a Syrian Kurdish militia called the People's Protection Units (YPG). Turkish leaders view the YPG as a terrorist organisation.
How Kurdish group became security flashpoint for Erdoğan and …
WEBMay 28, 2022 · Erdoğan has threatened a fresh incursion into Syria to tackle the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which it sees as synonymous with Turkey’s Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) that...
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