2/24/2023 0 Comments Freedom fighters 2![]() ![]() While YPG is a separatist actor in Syria for the US, as for Russia, it is a political actor that has to be integrated in Syria. ![]() In that sense, the US, for their own national interests, uses Turkey’s regional terrorist organization as a countermeasure to overcome ISIS by not considering it as a terrorist organization rather treating it as a freedom fighter. When ISIS captured Mosul in 2014, for the US, ISIS became a problem that has to be solved and other than YPG there wasn’t anyone more effective to overcome this problem. ![]() On the contrary, they are treating them like freedom fighters, proving them military equipment, health aid, and using them as a means for their own goals in Syria. As for the PYD, the US government didn’t include it on their list and this means that they don’t consider this as a terrorist organization. Since 1970, in each year the US declares their Foreign Terrorist Organizations list, where PKK became part of it in 1989. This situation, however, is not the case for the USA and other Western countries. In other words, they declared PYD as a terrorist organization as well. Turkey, who declared PKK as a terrorist organization, considers PYD as the continuation of PKK in Syria. ![]()
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