Less than a day after Turkish President Erdogan issued a statement complaining about the US and other nations aiding “Kurdish terrorists” in Syria, the US State Department is issuing its own statement criticizing the Kurds, and expressing “concerns” about reports of ethnic violence in their territory.
“We are aware of the reports and we are concerned by them and we are seeking more information about them,” officials warned. Turkish officials say there has been a recent influx of Arabs from northeast Syria, which is dominated by the Kurdish YPG, and claims of ethnic purges.
The YPG has gained considerable ground in the Hasakeh Province, backed by both the Assad government (in defense of the provincial capital) and by US airstrikes, which the US insists are purely being done to harm ISIS and not to help anyone.
Turkey considers the YPG (and indeed, many Kurdish groups) a terrorist organization, and is expressing growing disquiet with the amount of power they have along the border. Kurdish factions with secessionist ambitions have considerable influence in the bordering part of Turkey as well, and there is concern this de facto autonomous YPG territory will become a staging ground for operations against Turkey.
“We are aware of the reports and we are concerned by them and we are seeking more information about them,” What a lie. They are the ones behind the Kurds trying to establish a Kurdistan in the area to destabilise, more, the Middle East for the sake of their masters; Israel.
Timur
This is a Erdogan and Jihadist Mentalist that try to fabricates the accusation against YPG and Kurds. The Kurds are the only one fighting ISIS and Erdogan and his jihadist brainwashed soldiers are fabricating lies.Your pain is that ISIS losing in Rojava. Kurds defeat ISIS in Kobane and They will eliminate ISIS in the rest of Syria with FSA forces.All ethnicities are helping Kurds and YPG.Because they know that it is for their freedom.All people of Rojava loves YPG and sees them as their people. ISIS is losing now..you can help them if you want in GriSpi :))
Several media outlets reported that the YPG forces launched a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Arab residents in the area.
Arab people in the liberated villages refuted rumors about their displacement or burning their farms by YPG fighters.
Asya Abdulrahman, 31, an Arab resident of Tel Temir countryside, responded to the rumors about YPG attacks, saying: “On the contrary, the YPG hasn’t displaced us from our houses nor burned our farms. We have been displaced by ISIS terrorists.”
http://aranews.net/2015/06/video-arab-citizens-re…
There are other accusations of human rights violations. Recently there were claims that the YPG forced out the Arab population of a number of villages under the cover of the struggle against the Islamic State.
The PYD stands for a Rojava that is the expression of cultural and ethnic diversity. For example, Efrin is home to many Alevites and the female co-president is Alevite. In Cizîrê, there is a large Arab population and one of the co-presidents is Arab. You see the same on a local level. A major difference between the PYD and the Syrian allies of the KDP is their attitude towards the Arab population in Rojava. The KDP current says: ‘those people have been brought here as part of an Arabization policy of the Baath-regime and they need to leave, even if they have been here for generations.’ The PYD says that everybody who now lives in Rojava should be involved in building a new society.
http://roarmag.org/2015/06/kurdish-autonomy-jonge…
The accusations are coming from Erdogan.How can people trust this man and his Gov. It is confirmed by 1000 sources that he supports ISIS publicaly.He will do everything that ISIS control the GriSpi (TallAbyad).Recently "Cumhuriyet" shows videos that he transports both weapons and ISIS members to GriSpi (TAllAbyad).His stomach pain is that YPG and FSA advancing.He is very worried that ISIS losing in Syria.Kurds and YPG are very careful about the all people of Rojava.They are there to protect them and not to harm them. You will not find any source other than Erdogan or ISIS activist having these accusation.Besides that the YPG are together with Arap FSA forces.
What bothers Erdogan is that the YPG and the Syrian Arab Army are together defending Hasaka. He would not give a damn about the displacement of Arabs if the SAA were not there. The only Kurdish groups he trusts are the Barzani loyalists who have been nothing but tools of Zionism and imperialism for many decades.
Or could alot of this be about Sunni Hegemony in the region [Turkey Iraq under Saddam, the Gulf Monarchies]. Maybe the Iranians and Kurds have common wounds and fresh ones at that, so they share some sympatico as fellow victims of the dominant power of the region?