People's Defense Units
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Sep 6, 2026
Brad ColbertHOST
A negotiated roadmap followed, and we've talked about this in some previous episodes.
Brad ColbertHOST
YPG Commander Hamo became Deputy Defense Minister for the Eastern Territories in March of this year.
Brad ColbertHOST
And then late on the 27th in this month, Al-Shara issued Decree No. 164, appointing Abdi as a presidential advisor.
Brad ColbertHOST
The appointment is real.
Brad ColbertHOST
So for the Kurds, protection came from armed leverage, local governance, and America.
Brad ColbertHOST
Damascus offered recognition, but demanded one army, one state.
Brad ColbertHOST
Turkey treated the SDF's YPG Corps as a PKK extension.
Brad ColbertHOST
They wanted it completely gone.
Mark WayneHOST
Mm-hmm
Laith MaroufGUEST
... of, uh, the YPG, um, um, Al Mazloum, he became now a special advisor to Al-Jolani on Kurdish issues.
Laith MaroufGUEST
This is, you know, all those talk about women's rights, and that's why we have to support-
Mark WayneHOST
[laughs]
JordanHOST
Discipline in a way that I enjoy, especially in a way that I think when thinking about self-sovereignty and autonomy, there are non-authoritarian ways to think of discipline.
JordanHOST
This is something that James Stout talks about in Against the State, their latest book, when analyzing engagements and military practices and formations like the YPG, YPJ, the anarchist units and communist unit, some of the communist units and in the Spanish Civil War and the folks at Myanmar, the militias at Myanmar.
Prince ShakurHOST
Yeah, I definitely will plug those resources in the show notes as well, because I definitely am probably going to dig into those and read them, especially maybe dip back into Against the State and read some Russell Maroon Schultz over the next week
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Ibrahim HamidiGUEST
I mean, Mazloum Abdi, On Tuesday, he announced the delusion of all military and civil entities, right? Yes.
Ibrahim HamidiGUEST
Which means SDF, YPG, and YPJ, and the autonomous administration, right?
Amberin ZamanHOST
Yes.
Ibrahim HamidiGUEST
All of them being dissolved now, and now he's part of the new Syria state.
Ibrahim HamidiGUEST
information one the americans played good role to convince to mediate with the syrian government to include the women unit in the in the mess of interior to be honest which is good so now the americans played big role to convince the muscles to accept this The second is that part of the package, in a way or another, Mazloum Abdi Adallah Ahmed will go to Turkey to meet the leader of PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, who is in jail, in prison since February 1999.
Ibrahim HamidiGUEST
So they're going to meet with him and they will hope that will be perceived positively in Turkey, that they are encouraging the peace process between the Turkish government and the PKK in Turkey.
Ibrahim HamidiGUEST
And they hope that Abdullah Ocalan, will make a public statement to disconnect with YPG, SDF and PYD and to encourage them to be like Syrian entities and to use political means to achieve the rights and aspirations of the Syrians and the Kurds.
Amberin ZamanHOST
Well, that's huge because, of course, both Ilham Ahmed and Mazloum Kobani were very much part of the PKK for long, long years.
Mihail BadovidCORRESPONDENT
For Turkey, the dissolution of the Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, marks a significant development.
Mihail BadovidCORRESPONDENT
Ankara considers the YPG a terrorist organization linked to the PKK and carried out several cross-border military operations in northern Syria against the group.
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SDF commander Mazloum Abdi announced the dissolution of the group as an independent military force at the presidential palace on Tuesday, following an agreement reached in January between the SDF and Damascus on integrating its forces into the Syrian army.
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The two sides had also agreed on the recognition of Kurdish cultural, civil and educational rights in Syria.
speaker_15CORRESPONDENT
The development also comes as Turkey pursues a peace process with the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which is designated as a terrorist organization by Ankara, the U.S. and the EU.
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Ankara has welcomed the SDF's dissolution, saying it could strengthen Syria's unity.
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Turkey has long maintained that the People's Defense Unit's or YPG's presence along its southern border poses a threat to its national security.
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When a terrorist attack against Turkey came from Syria or Iraq, Turkey had difficulty identifying a counterpart to address.
speaker_0HOST
Türkiye has welcomed the formal dissolution of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces as an independent military force and its integration into Syrian state institutions.
speaker_0HOST
Ankara had long demanded the SDF's disbandment, regarding its YPG core as linked to the PKK, and says the change strengthens Syrian territorial unity and its own regional security strategy.
speaker_0HOST
The development is especially significant as Türkiye simultaneously pursues the PKK's disbandment at home.
speaker_0HOST
Yet removing independent armed structures does not resolve the underlying political question of Kurdish representation and rights.
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皆さんこんにちは。りんごパイNews in Easy Japaneseへようこそ。二〇二六年八月二十六日水曜日のニュースです。シリアで大きな変化が起きました。YPGというグループのリーダー、フェルハット・アブディーサヒンさんがグループのすべての組織を解散すると発表しました。発表はダマスカスの人民宮殿で行われました。この決定は、シリアのアフマド・アルシャラー大統領との合意によるものだそうです。これからYPG部隊はシリア軍に統合されます。次に中国です。中国の外務省は、米国にイランとの協力を妨げないようお願いしました。米国がイランに対する新しい制裁を始めたからです。林賢報道官は、イランとの協力は国際法の中で行われていると話しました。米国はこれらの制裁を経済的追放作戦と呼んでいます。ヨルダン川西岸地区では、イスラエルの議員ズヴィ・スコットさんが注目されています。スコットさんは、スレッジハンマーでパレスチナ人の記念碑を壊しました。この事件はナブルス南部のマダマ村で起きました。イスラエル軍は、この行動は許可されていないと言っています。ガザ中央部では、イスラエル軍の空爆で問題が起きました。空爆はディールアルバラの栄養補給物資を保管する倉庫を壊しました。この倉庫はアルドエールインサンという人道支援団体が持つものでした。物資は使えなくなったそうです。スポーツの話題です。全米オープンテニス大会が間もなくニューヨークで始まります。この大会は今年最後のグランドスラムで、八月三十日にフラッシングメドウズで開幕します。ファンたちは、カルロス・アルカラス選手やアリーナ・サバレンカ選手がタイトルを守れるかどうかに注目しています。これらのニュースは、軍事的な変化、外交上の緊張、人道危機や大きなスポーツイベントに関する世界的重要な動きを示しています。これで今日の主なニュースは終わりです。りんごパイNews in Easy Japaneseをご覧いただきありがとうございました。また近いうちにさらに多くのニュースをお届けします。ご視聴ありがとうございました。
Elijah MagnierGUEST
Turkey's first major deployment on the ground started in August 2016 under the Operation Euphrates Shield, and I was in Syria at that time.
Elijah MagnierGUEST
So this is when the Turkish tank and the special forces moved into Syria and started targeting the YPG Kurdish, the, uh, Syrian version of the PKK.
Elijah MagnierGUEST
And then in October 202017-- 2017, sorry, the Turkish troop enter Idlib, and this is where they started establishing observation post under the Astana de-escalation with the approval of Assad at the time, the American, the Russian, et cetera.
Elijah MagnierGUEST
And then in January 2018, Turkey launched the Operation Olive Branch, and that is occupying the zone of Afrin when the Kurds of Afrin preferred to abandon, uh, Afrin and go to Hasakah and Qamishli and not to give it to the forces of Damascus.
Tom BarrackGUEST
Now remember, along that northeast, you had 40 years of war of the Turks with the Kurds.
Tom BarrackGUEST
Now again, just to complicate it, the brand of Kurds we have, YPG, was different than PKK, who was the foreign terrorist organization designated by Türkiye and designated by the United States.
Tom BarrackGUEST
To avoid the foreign terrorist organization, because the Kurds are such great warriors, America decided to take a portion of what previously could have been PKK, call it YPG, incorporate this new SDF aspect, all these things you've, you, you've heard in the past, and made it independent.
Tom BarrackGUEST
But there had been a war going on between the Turks and the Kurds, so another buffer zone.
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