Female Kurd fighters fight ISIS

[pieter]

www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/11/very-secular-jihad-201411257617424922.html

Kurdish YPG And ISIS In Kobane


Syria War 2015 - Heavy Clashes And Intense Urban Fighting Between Kurdish YPG And ISIS In Kobane. The new year started with fresh fighting between Kurdish YPG fighters and the Islamic State in the battle for Kobane, Syria. Kurdish fighters made with the help of U.S. Airstrikes against ISIS targets further advances in batteling the Islamic State inside the town. Heavy urban fighting recently takes place and heavy clashes for the town are reported. Kobane is since 2014 a fierce battlefield where heavy clashes fighting and firefights took place on a daily basis and in 2015 it is very likely more combat footage from that area will surface.

Here you see the Kurd army at work in and around Mosul, with tanks, heavy machine guns, rpg's and mortars


Iraq War 2015 - Insane Heavy Intense Clashes Fighting And Firefights Between Kurdish Peshmergas And ISIS During The Battle For Mosul. Kurdish fighters keep pushing towards Mosul to repcapture the town from the Islamic State. On their way they are facing heavy resistance and are involved in a lot heavy intense clashes fighting and firefights. Kurdish troops using heavy weapons to fight their way through ISIS hold territory and made major advances in the area of Mosul. With the usage of Milan rocket systems they managed to take out several ISIS vehicles and SVIBEDs. This is the second video from the battle that just started a few days ago. The footage clearly shows that Kurdish fighters backed by U.S. airstrikes from A-10s and other planes have now the upper hand in the battle. Since 2014 Iraq has become a fierce battlefield whith heavy fighting taking place on a daily basis.




This documentry about Kurdish women of the PKK who fight together with their Syrian and Iraqi Kurd brethern and sisters against ISIS is very interesting. They talk about their PKK ideology, which has a feminist element (very rare in the Patriarchal middle-east). It is a fact that there is an equality between men en women in the Turkish PKK and the Syrian Kurd YPG. The story of the Kurd female fighter in the end is interesting. I read interviews with PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, and he really had unorthodox ideas. He really was dedicated to feminism as one of the pillars of the PKK ideology. The language these Kurd women speak is Turkish not Kurd language. I recognise it, because like I can understand and recognize the difference between Polish and Russian, I can hear the difference between the Turkish language and the Kurd language (which is closer to the Farsi of the Persian Iranians). Turkish is one of the largest immigrant languages in Arnhem, because the Turks and Turkish Kurds are the largest migrant group in Arnhem.



The Far left ideology of the PKK is a mix of leftwing Kurdish nationalism, Communalism, Feminism and Democratic confederalism. The Syrian Kurd Democratic Union Party, PYD, is also Feminist, Democratic socialist and Kurdish nationalist. It's armed wing, the YPG (People's Protection Units) consists of male and female units. Some male units are lead by Female commanders or leaders.

Links:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_%C3%96calan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Protection_Units
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Union_Party_(Syria)

[pieter]

Jaga,

How do you think about the Feminism of the Kurds? Did you know that the PKK was closely related to the PLO in Lebanon, when Syria was stil present there?
The PKK had bases in the Beqaa Valley.

The first training camp was established in 1982 in Bekaa Valley (which was then under Syrian control), with the support of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Syria. This main camp moved to north Iraq in 1998, under intensive pressure, after Syria expelled Ocalan and shut down all camps established in the region. At the time, North Iraq (Kurdistan) was experiencing vacuum of control after Operation Provide Comfort. Instead of a single training camp which could be easily destroyed, the organization created many small camps. During this period the organization set up a fully functioning enclave with training camps, storage facilities, and reconnaissance and communications centers.
In 2007, the organization was believed to have camps strung out through the mountains that straddle the border between Turkey and Iraq, including in Sinaht, Haftanin, Kanimasi and Zap. The organization developed two types of camps. The border camps were used as forward bases from which militants infiltrate into Turkey. The units deployed there are highly mobile and the camps have only minimal infrastructure. The other camps, in the Qandil Mountains, have more developed infrastructure—including a field hospital, electricity generators and a large proportion of the PKK's lethal and non-lethal supplies.
There are also training camps in other countries: the organization's training camp near Eindhoven in the Netherlands, was well-hidden in the woods, but was dismantled. The following raids resulted in arrests and seizure of materials in The Hague, Rotterdam, Eindhoven and Capelle aan den IJssel. There was another training camp in Belgium, evidence that the organization uses training camps in Europe for political and ideological training.

Cheers,
Pieter