Existing 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 ...

2016年1月26日 · This move allowed the Democratic Union Party (PYD), a Kurdish nationalist group linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)—a US- and Turkish-designated terrorist group—to take administrative and military control over the self-declared cantons of Efrin, Kobani and Jazira, collectively named Rojava.

U.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.

2022年11月14日 · Turkey has said the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia were responsible for a blast on the historic Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul on Sunday that killed six people,...

2023年7月13日 · The relationship between the PKK, PYD, People’s Defense Units (YPG), Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), and the SDF are vital to the group’s influence on international politics.

2018年6月27日 · YPG acts as the PYD’s armed apparatus in Syria. PKK maintains command and control over PYD by deploying its own members within PYD. Especially after the crisis in Syria, PKK members were assigned to PYD to fight in their ranks. Reports by international organizations also highlight the intrinsic links between PKK and PYD:

The familiarity and relationship between the Syrian regime and PKK facilitated re-entry of PKK fighters and, later, deal-making between the regime and the PKK-linked YPG/PYD. It also helps to explain the PKK’s ongoing dismissal/neglect of Kurdish society in Syria before 1998 and in a context of YPG/PYD-regime dealings after 2011.

PYD-YPG : Suriye’deki PKK Yakup ŞAHİN* İbrahim İRDEM** Abstract This study will briefly introduce the common ideology of the PKK and its affiliates in Syria. It also establishes the organic links between the PKK, which is internationally recognized as a terrorist organization, and the PYD-YPG, which has been active in Syria as a political ...

2024年1月30日 · PKK/YPG’s State Dream in Syria. This report analyzes how the PKK and the PYD evolved into the SDF and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria with a focus on the PKK’s war crimes and human rights violations, military presence and natural resources as well as Türkiye’s military operations against the PKK/YPG.

2021年4月19日 · This report analyses the role of the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the associated Democratic Union Party (PYD) during the Syrian civil war. The purpose of our research is to obtain a better understanding of the nature, objectives and methods of the YPG/ PYD as a combined paramilitary and rebel force that is involved in a ...