People's Protection Units (Organization)

LC control no.	no2018041913
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	People's Protection Units (Organization) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	YPG (Yekîneyên Parastina Gel) Yekîneyên Parastina Gel (Organization) Syrian Kurdish People's Defense Forces People's Defense Forces (Organization)
Field of activity	Paramilitary forces--Syria
Found in	Violent non-state actors and the Syrian Civil War, 2018: page 1 (People's Protection Units (Yekîneyên Parastina Gel, YPG)) English language Wikipedia website, March 30, 2018 (The People's Protection Units (Yekîneyên Parastina Gel‎ (YPG)) is a mainly Kurdish militia in Syria and the primary component of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria's Syrian Democratic Forces. The YPG is mostly ethnically Kurdish, but it also includes Arabs, foreign volunteers, and is closely allied to the Syriac Military Council, a militia of Assyrians. The YPG was formed in 2004 as the armed wing of the Kurdish leftist Democratic Union Party. It expanded rapidly in the Syrian Civil War and came to predominate over other armed Kurdish groups. A sister group, the Women's Protection Units (YPJ), fights alongside them) Armed organisations and political elites in civil wars, 2024: CIP galley (The Syrian Kurdish People's Defense Forces (YPG); People's Defense Forces (YPG)) Yekîneyên Parastina Gel website viewed in English, March 28, 2024: Di Derbarê Yekîneyên Parastina Gel = About the People's Defense Units (YPG)(The official army of Rojava-Northern Syria Federation; After the Syrian Baath regime's attacks in 2004, small units started to organize the YPG with the intention of protecting the people against attacks; the YPG was officially formed in 2011; Currently, the YPG is actively organized in the Efrin [Afrin], Kobanê [Kobani] and Cizîre [Jazeera] cantons and Aleppo's Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood; The YPG is a people's army set up and formed of volunteers) <https://ypgrojava.org/about-us>