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Title: Canadian Model Tiger Sun went to fight ISIS in Syria and reveals frontline horrors
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2015-07-06 10:28:42
Canadian

[N_Fiddledog]

"To protect their identities and build loyalty among the group, the Westerners all adopt Kurdish nom de guerres while fighting alongside local forces.

These pseudonyms typically include the word 'Heval' which means friend in Kurdish."

But...

I watched this documentary on the YJP this weekend.

(It's pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqI0a4VgEs8)

They seemed to be translating Heval as 'Comrade'.

[N_Fiddledog]

I think the translation of Heval as 'Comrade is more correct'.

This one's good for those who want to understand the divisions amongst the Kurds.

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For the first time, fighters from all the big Kurdish factions in the Middle East, the whole alphabet soup of KDP, PUK, PKK and YPG, will be fighting alongside each other in the same battle – the defence of Kobane from Isil in Syria. For the Kurds – who aspire to statehood, it's a hugely powerful moment. But just who are all these factions, and why do they matter?:

Here is a cut out and keep guide to Kurdish political groups:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... itics.html

Later he illustrates some of the Communist influence amongst the Kurd fighters.

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• PKK: the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Marxist group that fought a bloody war with Turkey for more autonomy in the Kurdish south-east from 1984 to a ceasefire last year. Its leader, Abdullah Ocalan, known throughout the Kurdish world as Apo, or Uncle, has been in a Turkish prison since 1999.

• PYD/YPG: the Democratic Union Party and its armed wing, the People’s Protection Units, have used the Syrian civil war to carve out a mini-state in three parts of northern Syria, of which Kobane is the one in the middle. It is regarded as so close to the PKK as to be almost a subordinate entity.

I'm pretty sure the women (at least the ones in Syria) are called YJP, and are affiliated with YPG. In the documentary the women soldiers are calling each other Comrade, but it was put together by Putin's RT network.