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April 26th, 2017 
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nsnbc : The Syrian – Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG) blasted Turkey for air strikes in Mount Karachok near the city of Derik on April 25. The YPG and the all-female YPJ are military wings of the PYD party, which Turkey designates as a terrorist organization on par with Turkey’s Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK).
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The YPG issued a press release stating that at 2 a.m. on Tuesday 25, 2017, Turkish airplanes launched a large-scale attack on the headquarters of the General Command of the People’s Defense Units (YPG) in Mount Karachok near the city of Derik.
The YPG stresses that there also are a media center, a local radio station, communication headquarters and some military institutions at the location. The YPG denounces the air raid as “a treacherous attack” that has “led to the death and wounding of a number of our comrades”. The YPG also notes that “further details will be released later on”.
In its press release the YPG also asserts:
“We as the People’s Defense Units say that this cowardly attack will not discourage our determination and our free will to fight and confront terrorism. We also call on our people with all its components in Rojava to stand in line with its legitimate forces in the face of this blatant attack”.
Turkey considers the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its military wings the YPG and YPJ as terrorist organizations allied and on par with Turkey’s Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK).
Joint press conference held by SDF commanders and deserting FSA officers in 2016. (archives)
The situation of the PYD / YPG-YPJ is complex. It cooperates with both Syrian military forces and their allies, and indirectly with the United States and the U.S. coalition against ISIS (ISIL / Daesh) via the YPG’s leading role within the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Turkey attempts to counter increased PYD / YPG – YPJ and other Kurdish influence along its southwestern border with Syria by its continued support for so-called “moderate” and also “not-so-moderate rebels” including Turkmen insurgents, as well as insurgent groups with more or less direct links to the nexus of Al-Qaeda linked groups in the region.
Turkey opposes “any” Kurdish presence that could challenge its regional hegemony west of the Euphrates river while Turkey cooperates with the KDP – PUK administration in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region (KAR) in northern Iraq.
CH/L – nsnbc 26.04.2017
Source Article from https://nsnbc.me/2017/04/26/syrian-kurdish-ypg-blasts-turkey-over/
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