Kurdish Women's Protection Units (Organization)

LC control no.	n 2020036797
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Kurdish Women's Protection Units (Organization) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Women's Protection Units (Organization) YPJ (Yekîneyên Parastina Jin‎) Ḥd̲āywāt̲ā d̲a-Sut̲ārā d̲a-Nešē (Organization) Waḥdāt Ḥimāyat al-Marʼa (Organization) Yekîneyên Parastina Jin‎ (Organization)
Beginning date	2013-04-04
Special note	Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found in	The daughters of Kobani, 2021: CIP galley (the YPJ, the Kurdish Women's Protection Units; YPJ soldiers; formed April 4, 2013; The Women's Protection Units, became a separate and equal part of the YPG, the People's Protection Units; YPJ (Women's Defense Units)) English language Wikipedia website, July 7, 2020 (Women's Protection Units or Women's Defense Units; romanized Kurdish: Yekîneyên Parastina Jin‎; roamnized Syric: Ḥd̲āywāt̲ā d̲a-Sut̲ārā d̲a-Nešē; The YPJ is part of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the armed forces of Rojava; While chiefly Kurds, it also includes women from other ethnic groups in Northern Syria)