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S Speculations about the PYD

The most attention-grabbing factor related to the protectiveness
the West feels regarding Kobane is speculations about the PYD (Par-
tiya Yekitiya Demokrat) ruling the Kurdish region in Syria. This

manipulation, carried out especially by the Western media and some
neocon writers, is sometimes deliberate and sometimes stems from a
general lack of information. Consequently some factors about this
issue that are known to very few people should be explained in
details.

The PYD is an organization that has been established in 2003 and
is an extension of the PKK. It was founded by the PKK members
remaining in Syria after Öcalan and other PKK leaders had to leave
Syria in 1998 as a result of the pressure applied by Turkey. The YPG
is the PYD's armed branch. Although the PYD has lately put on an

imperialist mask, just as the PKK has, they are Leninists and commu-
nists just like the PKK. Abdullah Öcalan is the leader of both of those
groups. In their official definitions, it is stated that they are a sub-
sidiary organization of the PKK and that they regard Öcalan as their
ideological leader and Kongra-GEL (the PKK's political organization)
as the "highest legislative organ of the Kurdish People." As a matter
of fact, in the second indictment that was prepared in 2012 within the
scope of the investigation about the KCK, data about the
PYD are given as well. (An investigation was start-

ed in Turkey in April 2009 about the KCK,
which is known in Turkey as the urban
wing of the PKK
Militants from the
YPG, the armed wing
of the PYD.

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