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Using "the Kurds" interchangeably with "PKK" erases the PKK's victims. There are 200,000 Syrian Kurds in Turkey who fled the YPG/PKK regime. Note: the PKK areas were never exposed to regime bombardment, as rebel areas were. This is near-solely the result of political repression.
Goodness Kyle you make it sound like some 220,000 Syrian Kurds from Kobani and surrounding countryside fled across the border to safety in Turkey not because of the advance of ISIS (whatever did ISIS do to Raqqa’s 30,000 Kurds...?) but due to PYD repression.
ISIS is gone so why don't kurds return to gobani? probably because these kurds don't want their kids to be forcefully recruited as child soldiers and get sent to the front lines against isis to be killed.
Kurds have returned to Kobanî actually. Several refugees I know went back directly after liberation.
And I know more than several kurds who preferred to stay and settle in Turkey instead of going back to ypg controlled syria. Why don't they go back to their homelands and instead settle in a completely new country?
Kyle’s tweet claims the mass movement of people across the border into Turkey was created because of people fleeing YPG/PYD, not ISIS. He’s not talking about why they did not return. That’s a different (and equally legitimate) topic of discussion.
He's wrong and you're wrong too. Kurds didn't just flee from ISIS. They also fled from YPG too. There was no ISIS in Qamishli yet plenty of Kurds left Qamishli. That wasn't due to ISIS or Qamishli being destroyed by fighting (which didn't even happen at all).
Yes, I agree that there are multiple factors in a conflict zone that result in the movement of people. However, Kyle mention the movement of 200,000 - that is the approximate number Syrians that entered Turkey during the siege of Kobani in September 2014.http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/amp/turkey-hosts-200000-refugees-from-kobane-emergency-agency-says-75866 …
The first refugees to Turkey were Kurdish opposition groups. Long before ISIS emerged in Syria.
The guy is ridiculous. I don't know if his pro-Turkey stance is due to being paid or what, but most of what it tells is so crazy, completely without sense. He's not even good in making propaganda.
so they must have been returned back to N. Syria years ago, after ISIS removed. Did they? By the way, what happened to Mashaal Tammo & what was his ethnicity & who did it & why?
this Orton clown should be denied the oxygen of publicity
Kobani's total population was 190,000 and Kurdish population was 80,000. Kurdish refugees who fled to Turkey, clearly oppressed by PKK.
Oh, you counted whole population? How funny is that.
#ISIS didn't touch YPG zones almost 2 years but captured most of #FSA zones & harmed #Kurds living w/o problem w FSA.#Daesh weakened FSA so much #Assad could find a passage back to #Aleppo. Noone cared, did nothing. But after famous Kobane siege, a media/military campaign startedpic.twitter.com/ULVPKpqFQV
Why didn't they go to other YPG-held areas but Turkey?
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