Kurdistan forces are liberating Western Kurdistan

[alan131210]

What happened in sarê kanye ? Is it liberated from FSA yet ????

[brendar]

BEIRUT — Kurdish residents backed by militia have taken control of two towns in northeastern Syria near the border with Turkey after convincing pro-government forces to leave, a watchdog said on Saturday.
The region's Hasakeh province has seen heavy fighting in recent days between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and rebels, with 46 combatants killed in two days as the opposition seized the border town of Ras al-Ain on Friday.

The Kurds took control of the towns of Derbassiye and Tall Tamr late on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
They were backed by militia from the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which has links with Turkey's rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), it said.
The residents and militiamen surrounded government and security offices in both towns and convinced pro-government forces to abandon their posts, said the Britain-based Observatory, which relies on a network of activists and residents on the ground.

It said the residents had feared the same kind of violence that saw 9,000 Syrians flee to Turkey in 24 hours in the face of the fighting in Ras al-Ain.
Derbassiye, northeast of Ras al-Ain, sits on the border with Turkey and is home to a small border crossing.
Tall Tamr is located at a strategic crossroads. The road from provincial capital Hasakeh to Ras al-Ain meets the region's main east-west highway at the town.
Government forces now control just two major cities in the province, Hasakeh itself and the far northeastern border town of Qamishli, the Observatory said.

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[alan131210]

Kurdish flag in Sare kanye been downed by FSA (2nd video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkxO5z-3jJE&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1   

what do they say about the flag been raised at 1:10 ?

[RawandKurdistani]

CEYLANPINAR, Turkey,— Thousands of Kurds have fled Syrian army attacks on the strategic Kurdish town of Ras al-Ain on the Turkish border, running for their lives after their homes were shelled and the corpses of fighters left strewn on the streets.

With nothing but the clothes on their backs, grandparents, women and children rushed to the border and, when their numbers turned to thousands, Turkish soldiers opened the gates and offered them refuge.

Ras al-Ain is one of just two Turkish border crossings still controlled by the Syrian army. Rebels fighting to bring down President Bashar al-Assad have captured four others while a seventh is controlled by Kurdish militia.

Samira Rushi and her four children were among the thousands who left. Now they are living with 150 people, mostly neighbours from the predominantly Kurdish town, in a single home tucked away in a back alley in the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar.

From a neighbour's rooftop, they can see Ras al-Ain, nestled on a hillside in the distance. When night falls and they huddle together, sleeping 13 to a room, they are kept awake by the sound of artillery and gunfire which raged on into Sunday.

"There were bodies on the ground, houses were destroyed and after that, we left. My home was destroyed in the shelling," said Rushi.

Now she worries about her husband and the other neighbours who stayed behind to look after their homes and "help anyway they can" to defeat Assad and the regime they despise.

More than 11,000 Syrians fled into neighbouring countries in the space of 24 hours -- 9,000 of them into Turkey in the face of deadly fighting between rebels and the army in the northeastern province of Hasakeh in Syrian Kurdistan (western Kurdistan) .

Over 3 million Kurds live in western Kurdistan in Syria's north, mainly in the north bordering Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan region. Syrian Kurds have long sought official recognition of the Kurdish language and their culture in Syria.

The United Nations warns that the number of Syrian refugees in the region will reach 700,000, and the head of its humanitarian efforts said those in need of emergency aid in Syria would rise to more than four million early next year.

Turkey has shouldered a huge burden. The latest exodus brings the number of registered Syrian refugees in the country to more than 120,000.

Samira and other refugees who spoke to AFP in Ceylanpinar spoke movingly of how Turkish soldiers granted them shelter.

"The soldiers opened the gate and said welcome and helped us very much," said Amira Taboush, a mother of five children. "And the people in this area have helped us very much, they are Kurds," she added.

"Thank you Erdogan for helping us," interrupted another woman, standing in the kitchen next to crates of vegetables donated by Kurdish Turkish neighbours.

Analysts say that like their Iraqi brethren, Syrian Kurds, could find in the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan a valuable ally.

Last month, US magazine The Atlantic predicted that if a de facto Kurdish autonomous zone emerges in northern Syria as a result of the 20-month war, Turkey could prove a natural ally.

While Ankara has been hostile to an independent Kurdish state, its calculations could be changed by the prospect of chronically unstable Sunni Arab neighbours, and the need to counter Iran's Shiite axis, the magazine said.

Many religiously motivated Sunni Arab rebels in neighbouring province Aleppo look on the Kurds as collaborators with the Assad regime and have clashed with Kurdish militia,www.ekurd.net but refugees from Ras al-Ain claim to be at one with the rebel cause.

They complain about years of marginalisation, abuse and discrimination at the hands of the Assad government and say that in their town, Kurdish militia work closely with the Free Syrian Army, the main Arab-led rebel group.

"Bashar is filth, filth, filth. He is very bad with the Kurds. He doesn't let us learn (our language and culture) and when some Kurds finish university, they can't find work in the government," said Taboush.

Despite opposition claims that Ras al-Ain had fallen, refugees said the town was still divided 50-50 between the army and the rebels, and fighting flared anew on its outskirts early Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Over the weekend, Kurdish residents backed by militia peacefully took control of a string of towns in the northeast leaving just two major cities in Hasakeh province under central government control, the Britain-based watchdog said.

A similar deal granted Kurdish villages unprecedented freedoms in governing their own affairs in Aleppo province in the northwest, but has fueled rebel accusations of collusion.

When it comes to the future, Ras al-Ain refugees are clear what they want -- peace, return to their homes and an independent Kurdistan.

When Quchar Mustafa, 55, fled to Turkey, she and her daughter took it in turns to carry her handicapped son, Mohammed. His arms and legs withered, he lies on the floor, immobile on his back.

"My first hope is that Bashar goes and the regime goes and that people live in peace and safety," she says in Kurdish. "Then we want an independent state -- a country and justice for the Kurdish people."

Copyright ©, respective author or news agency, AFP | Ekurd.net

[brendar]

"The collapse of the syrian regime begins and ends in damascus not in Sare Kania or Qamishlo".

[brendar]

Video when YPG commandor Nujin Deriks arrives in Afrin after release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... zlPQPz5mo#!

[brendar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blydVmvPsEI&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1   

[brendar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0yiSgru ... PITeArM%3D

[Qonyeyi]

Beautiful pictures!

[purearch72]

Comon send in the peshmerga.

[Bahoz]

There we go, did you guys see the news? the Assad regime started bombing Seri Kaniya! so thats what some parties want they want the regime to bomb kurdish areas and they got what they want! ... many civilians died and injured today as result of the regime bombing...

[Bahoz]

look at the FSA facists how they refusing to carry Kurdistan flag together with their flag after they entered the kurdish city of Seri Kaniya.. this is what some parties are doing it to us! they thought that FSA will be waiting for us by roses so instead they get the slap on their face ... the same guys were saluting FSA and welcoming FSA to enter kurdish area...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... iTuO8LJqE4

[Hurro-Urartian]

Time for Qamislo!
http://ku.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=nuce&nuceID=38770

[Hurro-Urartian]

no birêz.

[Qonyeyi]

Regime forces have been thrown out of Qamishlo and Amude by YPG.