The YPG has released a statement on the situation of Afrin, and promised that ‘the resistance in Afrin will continue until every inch of Afrin is liberated, and the people of Afrin will return their villages’. They claimed that they have asked civilians to leave in order to avoid atrocities and that the conflict has reached a new stage.
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“We would like to declare that our war against the Turkish occupation and the Takfiri forces calling themselves the Free Army has entered a new stage, the transition from direct confrontation war to hit-and-run tactics is necessary to avoid the deaths of more civilians and to strike at the enemy. Our forces are everywhere in Afrin” they said.
The YPG, furthermore, condemned Russia and Turkey directly for the occupation, and blamed international silence for the current situation of the city.
“Break your silence, if Erdogan is not stopped today, he will threaten the whole world,” a YPG spokesperson said in a press conference.
On Sunday, former PYD co-chair, Saleh Muslim tweeted that “Withdrawal from one battle doesn’t mean the loss of the war. Kurdish people will keep defending themselves from the planned genocide”
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