On 13.10.14 23:17, Amir Taaki wrote: > testing...
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> On 10/08/2014 04:25 PM, Amir Taaki wrote:
>> http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29532291 >>
>> Right now the Popular Protection Units (YPG) fighters are
>> engaging in fierce street battles with IS fighters.
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>> The YPG is the armed wing of the PYD fighting for Kurdish
>> independence in Syria.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Union_Party_%28Syria%29 >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Protection_Units >>
>> They are members with the other Kurdish organisations under the
>> umbrella of the KCK, and is ideologically aligned.
>>
>> "The Democratic Union Party considers jailed PKK founder Öcalan
>> as its ideological leader, and declares the People's Congress of
>> Kurdistan (Kongra-Gel) as the supreme legislative authority of
>> the Kurdish people. It incorporates into the United Kurdish
>> Community in Western Kurdistan (KCK ? Rojava) with its own
>> organisational identity."
>>
>> "The PYD admits that the two parties have an ideological
>> affinity and a close relationship"
>>
>> The ideology of the KCK:
>>
>> "The democratic confederalism of Kurdistan is not a State
>> system, it is the democratic system of a people without a
>> State... It takes its power from the people and adopts to reach
>> self sufficiency in every field including economy."
>>
>> The YPG is not only representing Kurdish interests, as they have
>> been fighting Islamic fascists since the beginning of the Syrian
>> civil war:
>>
>> "Though predominantly Kurdish, the group has attracted increasing
>> numbers of Arabs, including fighters defecting from the
>> mainstream opposition[13] as well as locals from mixed or Arab
>> villages in YPG-controlled territory who see the group as the
>> best guarantor of regional security"
>>
>> The war is polarising between a diverse mixed group of peoples
>> led by the Kurds linked to anarchist philosophy, and Sunni
>> tribes under the banner of the IS.
>>
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