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Clashes between Kurds and Syrian army in the Kurdish city of
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Clashes between Kurds and Syrian army in
the Kurdish city of Qamişlo, Western Kurdistan
21.7.2012 |
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July
21, 2012
QAMISHLI, Syrian Kurdistan,— One day
after freeing the Kurdish city of
Kobanê form the Baath regime agents
and Syrian army, Kurds also took control over the
government institutions in Afrin and Amuda cities as
well as Cidêris district on Friday.
Iraqi Kurdistan's independent Kurdish newspaper Hawlati said that
since early Friday evening war has broken out in the
mainly Kurdish city of Qamişlo.
Ismael Hama, Qamişlo–based chief of Kurdish National
Council of Syria (KNCS) told Hawlati newspaper that
Amuda has been completely freed and probably in a
near future Qamislo will also be freed.
Kurdish People’s Defense Unions (YPG) said that the
Kurdish citizens and the YPG units assaulted the
government agencies in Afrin and Cidêris of Aleppo
province and controlled them.
The locations were freed without any confrontations,
according to Hawlati.
The freed zones are now run by a joint committee of
the KNCS and Western Kurdistan's People's Assembly
which recently signed a unifying deal in Erbil.
Meanwhile the group of People’s Defense Unions (YPG)
members attacked by Assad's security forces in
Syrian Kurdistan.
Syrian government forces launched an attack against
a group of patrolling People’s Defense Unions (YPG)
members in Qamişlo,www.ekurd.net
the biggest city in West Kurdistan, ANF news agency
reported.
One YPG member was reported wounded in the attack on
Friday night.
The attack by state forces came after the Kurdish
people
liberate all
government institutions in the Kurdish city of
Kobane in West Kurdistan on 19 July and took the
city of Afrin and the district of Cidêris on the
20th.
Committees for civil defense which announced on
Thursday that they hold themselves responsible for
ensuring security in Kurdish regions have declared
their organization as “People’s Defense Unions (YPG)”
on Friday.
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