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Women's Protection Units - Wikipedia

27.11.17

Women's Protection Units - Wikipedia: The Women's Protection Units or Women's Defense Units (Kurdish: Yekîneyên Parastina Jin‎, YPJ, pronounced Yuh-Pah-Juh[8]; Arabic: وحدات حماية المرأة‎, translit. Wahdat Himayat al-Mar'a; Syriac: ܚܕܝ̈ܘܬܐ ܕܣܘܬܪܐ ܕܢܫ̈ܐ‎, translit. Ḥdoywotho d'Sutoro d'Neshe) is an all-female military organization. It includes Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians, Circassians, and foreign volunteers. The YPJ is the female equivalent of the People's Protection Units (Yekîneyên Parastina Gel, YPG) militia.[9] The YPJ and YPG are the armed wing of the Democratic Union Party (Syria) (PYD), which controls most of Rojava, Syria's predominantly Kurdish north.[9]


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