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Sixth Kurdish city of Girke Lege liberated
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The Kurdish town of Girke Lege in Hasakah province
in Syrian Kurdistan (Western Kurdistan) has been
liberated from Assad's security forces. Photo:
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July
24, 2012
QAMISHLI, Syrian Kurdistan,— Syrian
forces have peacefully withdrawn from the Kurdish
town of Girke Lege in Hasakah province (Western
Kurdistan), leaving all their buildings empty and
under the control of Kurdish forces.
Ismail Sharaf, central committee member of the
Democratic Party of Kurdistan-Syria, told Rudaw that
the Kurdish People’s Protection Units are now in
control of Girke Lege after the Syrian army and
police left the area.
“Girke Lege is peaceful and secure. The situation is
stable and the Kurdish political parties are based
at their newly established centres trying to help
the local people with whatever they need,” Sharaf
said.
Last week, as the revolution intensified and moved
into the capital Damascus, several Kurdish cities
were liberated without major clashes, including
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Amude and Efrin. Girke Lege is the sixth Kurdish
town to break away from Assad’s regime.
“What is happening in Kurdistan cannot be compared
to what is happening right now in the middle and
south of Syria. I think this is because the Kurdish
nation in Syria is carrying out a civil struggle. We
are doing our best to not use any weapons, and so
are peacefully liberating our towns and cities,”
Sharaf said.
Girke Lege is a small town with a population of
16,000. It is an important place geographically and
strategically as it is situated between the Turkish
border and the town of Derek in the Rumelan region.
The town name was Arabized to “Ma’abad,” but the
majority of the population is Kurdish.
Sharaf said regime forces have retreated to parts of
the Rumelan region where Syria’s major oil
refineries are situated.
All government institutions and local public
departments are now in the hands of the People’s
Protection Committees belonging to the Democratic
Union Party (PYD), the most influential Kurdish
political party in Syria.
Sharaf told Rudaw that the PYD and the Kurdish
National Council (KNC) are currently in talks over
how to run the public departments so that services
do not stop and everything returns to normal in the
town.
On June 11, Syrian Kurdish factions signed the Erbil
Agreement which designates joint leadership between
the KNC and PYD’s Council of Syrian Kurdistan over
freed cities.
The KNC and PYD have two different versions of the
Kurdish flag, which may lead to conflict in the
coming days.
The KNC is a non-military organization and, because
most of the areas are controlled by the PYD, they
have their own version of the flag on the liberated
buildings they are now controlling, according to
Sharaf.
He added, “In order to avoid conflict, we have
lowered our version of the Kurdish flag in many
places where we are in control.”
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