PKK/YPG forcefully recruited 286 children in Syria last year: UN

(Yes, the Glorious Kurds, our heroes in the region (read as: our proxy army), abducting children to be weapons of war against their will. Boy can we pick em huh?)

from Daily Sabah

The PKK terrorist group’s Syrian wing, the YPG, forcefully recruited 286 children in Syria last year, a U.N. report said.

Anadolu Agency (AA) compiled the records of terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq regarding children from the "Children and Armed Conflict" report of U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, which includes data for 2024.

The 40-page report said that 527 children were recruited into armed cadres by various groups, primarily the PKK/YPG, which uses the name "SDF," and its affiliates, as well as Daesh.

The report noted that the U.N. confirmed that a total of 286 children were forcibly recruited into armed cadres and used in Syria by the PKK/YPG and its affiliates alone.

The PKK/YPG and other organizations were held responsible for the deaths or disabilities of 110 children and the forced abduction of 10 children in 2024, and it was stated that the terrorists used 23 schools and hospitals for their armed activities.

It was stated that as of the end of 2024, approximately 1,000 children, including foreigners, had their freedoms restricted due to their ties to armed groups, especially Daesh...

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PKK elements in Syria must leave country: FM Fidan

(Oh look. Someone else understands what 'ISIS' actually is. Good. I thought I was the only one)

from Daily Sabah

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said the PKK terrorist group's members in the YPG must leave Syria as the country tries to form a new, unified administration, which he said needs to be inclusive and tolerant.

"Elimination of YPG is Türkiye's strategic goal," Fidan told a live broadcast on NTV channel Friday. He highlighted that the PKK's Syrian offshoots have no place in the country's future while noting that the safety of the Kurdish population must be ensured.

"Syria now has a national ruling government," Fidan said, adding that the new administration would not recognize the YPG or others.

"They will take their land and sovereignty back," he added.

YPG, the Syrian offshoot of the PKK, a terrorist group that has waged a bloody terror campaign in Türkiye since 1984 and has killed at least 40,000 people.

Washington backs the PKK/YPG under the guise of a fight against the Daesh terrorist group....

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US, Türkiye maintain contact on changing situation in Syria: Pentagon

from Daily Sabah

The Pentagon on Wednesday said the U.S. military is keeping in touch with Türkiye about the evolving situation in Syria following the collapse of Bashar Assad’s regime.

During a press briefing, deputy spokesperson Sabrina Singh said that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had discussions earlier this week with his Turkish counterpart Yaşar Güler.

"So the conversations are ongoing, understanding the dynamics on the ground in Syria. Türkiye certainly faces threats from within Syria, and they have the right also to protect themselves. But that's why we're continuing to have these conversations, not just with Türkiye, but with other regional stakeholders when it comes to Syria," she said.

While Singh noted that the U.S. remains in talks with the PKK terrorist group wing YPG in Syria, she avoided addressing questions about the potential U.S. stance should clashes occur between Türkiye and the PKK/YPG...

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Terrorists, regime-held towns on target as Syria fighting rages on

from Daily Sabah

An all-out push to capture the key Syrian province of Aleppo and more towns by anti-regime forces and efforts by the Syrian opposition to thwart the capture of towns by the terrorist group PKK/YPG revived the frozen conflict in the war-torn country.

Since last week, forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) claimed several territorial gains in their lightning offensive that primarily targeted Aleppo. Aleppo apparently fell into their control on Sunday with forces loyal to the Assad regime retreating. Elsewhere, the Syrian National Army (SNA) of the opposition, managed to capture Tal Rifaat where the PKK/YPG sought to establish a “terror corridor” by linking it to northeastern Syrian towns it controls after the HTS-led forces’ gains.

Rescue service White Helmets said on Monday that at least 25 people were killed in northwestern Syria in airstrikes carried out by the regime forces and Russia.

Russian and regime jets struck the city of Idlib held by anti-regime forces in northern Syria on Sunday, military sources said, as Bashar Assad vowed to crush “terrorists” who had swept into the city of Aleppo. Regime forces also said it had recaptured several towns that the opposition had overrun in recent days...

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Iraq defines PKK as 'banned organization' in official documents

from Daily Sabah

Iraq took another step against the PKK, a terrorist group that claimed thousands of lives in its northern neighbor Türkiye. According to local media reports, the Iraqi government issued a directive for state institutions to refer to the PKK as a "banned organization" in official correspondence.

An official letter sent to the Iraqi Parliament included new instructions from Prime Minister Mohammed S. Al Sudani regarding the PKK. Al Sudani directed that the term "banned organization" be used in all official institutional correspondence when referring to the group.

In its nearly 40-year terror campaign against Türkiye, the PKK – listed as a terrorist organization by Türkiye, the U.S. and the EU – has been responsible for the deaths of over 40,000 people, including women, children and infants...

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Türkiye blasts PKK/YPG's 'unacceptable election' plans in Syria

from Daily Sabah

Defense Minister Yaşar Güler on Monday blasted plans by the PKK terrorist group’s Syrian offshoot, the YPG, to conduct so-called local elections in the country’s north as “unacceptable” and a threat to Türkiye’s national security.

Türkiye considers the move as a step by the PKK/YPG toward achieving an “autonomous” status first in Syria before moving to the next stage of its plan: an independent state.

After decades of a bloody campaign for a so-called Kurdish state encompassing Türkiye and Iraq, the PKK strives for legitimacy in Syria’s north, notably with a so-called local election in the coming months in regions controlled by the PKK/YPG.

In a written reply to questions from The Associated Press (AP), Güler reiterated Türkiye’s commitment to establishing a secure corridor along its borders with Syria and Iraq to counter the threat posed by PKK/YPG terrorists.

The PKK/YPG terrorist group, which occupies northern and eastern parts of Syria, has announced plans to hold municipal elections on June 11. The vote to choose mayors will be held in the provinces of Hassakeh, Raqqa, Deir el-Zour and the eastern part of Aleppo province near the Turkish border. Residents in these regions, however, also reject the PKK/YPG’s plans, with dozens taking to the streets last week in protests...

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YSP members among 17 PKK suspects arrested in southern Türkiye

 from Daily Sabah

Turkish authorities on Saturday arrested 17 suspects linked to the terrorist group PKK, including five members of the pro-PKK Green Left Party (YSP).

Nazlı Binici, the head of YSP’s Suruç branch, as well as four other Suruç city council members belonging to YSP, a doctor and a teacher, were among the 17 suspects detained in raids across three districts of southeastern Şanlıurfa province last Wednesday.

The suspects were accused of operating as two separate groups within the PKK, with one surveilling and reporting on police stations and security checkpoints while the other was preparing for assassination against security forces under direct orders from so-called top members of the terrorist group, authorities said.

The YSP is informally known as the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) and is a successor of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). The party rebranded as YSP after last year’s May elections to skirt a Constitutional Court lawsuit seeking its permanent closure over alleged links to the PKK. It later tried to change its name to the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (Dem Party), but the courts rejected the request...

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Barack Obama Airdrops Arms and Supplies to PKK Terrorists Outside Kobani

(archived from October 20, 2014)

by Scott Creighton

 

 

 

While the people of the United States are being deliberately distracted by the criminally over-hyped Ebola Crisis™, President Peace Prize is backing the Shi’a death-squads of the murderous al-Maliki regime in Iraq (read here , here and here) and air-dropping weapons, munitions and other aid to a notorious terrorist organization, the Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK), in Syria (read here and here).

 

“The United States has airdropped small arms, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish militia forces in the besieged city of Kobani who have been fighting back an ISIS assault for weeks. The airdrops will likely stir controversy with the Turkish government, which has opposed support for Kurdish military groups in Syria that it believes are affiliated with a Kurdish group that has conducted terrorist attacks inside Turkey for decades” ABC News

“The airdrops are almost certain to anger the Turkish government, which has said it would oppose any U.S. arms transfers to the Kurdish rebels in Syria. Turkey views the main Kurdish group in Syria as an extension of the Turkish Kurd group known as the PKK, which has waged a 30-year insurgency in Turkey and is designated a terror group by the U.S. and by NATO.” AP

Senior administration officials reported that on Sunday night three American C-130 aircraft dropped 27 pallets of materials for the Kurdish fighters in or near Kobani. It was classified as “the type of material that would help them sustain this fight.”

 

The PKK is classified as a terrorist organization by Turkey, NATO, the EU and the United States among many others.