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Syrian Kurds ‘receiving military training
in Iraqi Kurdistan for the day after Assad’
30.3.2012
By Elhanan Miller - Times of Israel |
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First Kurdish Battalion announced in Syrian
Kurdistan [Western Kurdistan]. Photo: Ekurd.net/YouTube.
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Kurds break from Syrian
opposition after hopes for an autonomous region are
dashed
March 30, 2012
ERBIL-Hewlêr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — Kurdish citizens of Syria
have fled to the autonomous region of Kurdistan in
northern Iraq, where they are receiving military
training in preparation for the post-Assad era, an
Syrian Arabic-language Kurdish website reported
Thursday.
According to xabar24, at least 330 Kurdish Syrians
are being trained in a military camp run by the
Peshmerga, the Iraq's Kurdistan armed forces.
According to one youth in the camp, training began
last week south of the Kurdish capital Erbil
following a decision of “the highest ranks of the
Kurdistan Democratic party (KDP),” led by the
region’s President Massoud Barzani.
The Kurdish youth told xabar24 that the training is
shrouded in secrecy, with cadets banned from leaving
the training grounds. He added that the military
training will allow Kurds to “intervene in the
Kurdish areas [of Syria] to prevent chaos when the
Syrian regime falls.”
Kurds, a Sunni Muslim ethnic minority, comprise an
estimated 9% of Syria’s population, mostly
concentrated in the country’s north and north-east.
Many Kurds have fled Syria to the neighboring
Kurdistan region of northern Iraq,www.ekurd.net
as Assad’s crackdown on Syrian towns intensified
over the past months.
Kurdish representatives stormed out of a Syrian
opposition meeting in Istanbul Tuesday, after their
demands for an autonomous federal region within
Syria went unmet.
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