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Syrian Kurds Flee Islamist Pogroms, Taking Refuge in Iraq
Al Qaeda-affiliated groups are battling Kurdish militias in Syria for
control of Syrian Kurdistan, trying to 'ethnically cleanse' the area
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By David Lev
First Publish: 8/18/2013, 8:13 PM

[image: Kurdish YPG fighters]
Kurdish YPG fighters
Flash 90

Al-Qaida loyalists fighting the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
have managed to seize control of large parts of the country – and their
influence is increasingly being felt in Kurdish areas of northern Syria. In
recent days, many thousands of Syrian Kurds, seeking to escape persecution
at the hands of Jihadists, have been crossing the border into the
autonomous Kurdish area of northern Iraq.

Last year, Syrian forces pulled out of most of the Kurdish regions, with
the army concentrating on defending its position in the center and south of
the country, where Syria's principal cities are located. But into that
vacuum rushed Islamist forces, seeking to build a contiguous territory with
fellow Islamists in Iraq.

Kurdish fighters have been battling the Islamists, most of them members of
Al Qaeda-affiliated groups, and ordinary Kurds have been caught up in the
fighting. The Kurdish People's Protection Unit (YPG) has been involved in
fierce fighting with Al Qaeda-linked Islamist groups such as Al Nusra and
the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) over control of
Kurdish-majority regions in northern Syria. Not long after the start of the
uprising against the Assad regime, government forces pulled out of Kurdish
areas, and the YPG moved in to take control. Arab groups within the rebel
Free Syrian Army (FSA) initially made a grab for Kurdish areas but were
beaten back.

In recent months, however, Al Nusra and ISIS have led a concerted and
violent campaign to install their own independent "emirates," or Islamic
mini-statelets in the region. That was met with fierce opposition by the
YPG, who responded by ejecting Islamist forces from the town of Ras al-Ain
among other areas. Since then, anti-Kurdish rhetoric has reached fever
pitch among Arab Islamists, with some mosques issuing *fatwas *(religious
decrees) encouraging the wholesale slaughter of Kurds.

When they take control of an area, the Islamists often conduct what is
essentially a pogrom against Kurds, looting and burning homes and
businesses. Meanwhile, shipments of goods and produce into the area have
all but ceased because of the fighting, with high inflation and food
shortages resulting.

So far, according to the UN, as many as 7,000 Kurdish refugees have crossed
the border into Iraq, but Kurdish officials said the number was closer to
15,000. Hundreds more cross the border each day. Observers in Iraq who have
heard increasingly desperate tales of woe say that the Islamist campaign
sounds very much like an attempt at ethnic cleansing.

There have been numerous reports of massacres by Islamists of Kurds. Last
week, Masoud Barzani, president of the autonomous Kurdish Regional
Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, issued a warning to jihadist groups in
northern Syria. Calling on Kurdish parties in Iraq to launch an
investigation into alleged massacres by Islamists against Syria's Kurdish
population, Barzani warned that if such reports were found to be true, the
KRG would intervene directly to defend their Kurdish brethren.

His calls are significant as they may signal an increased willingness by
rival Kurdish groups to unite against Arab and Islamist terrorist groups in
Syria, analysts said.

The Kurds are the largest indigenous Middle Eastern nation without a state.
Their homeland, Kurdistan, is currently occupied by Turkey, Syria, Iran and
Iraq, although Kurds in Iraq enjoy autonomy under the KRG, with their own
police force and armed forces (known as *peshmerga*). Kurds in Syria make
up around 10% of the population, and are concentrated largely in the north
of the country..


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