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CONTEXT: Turning schools into centers of PKK propaganda. A look inside the Kurdish textbooks rejected by Assyrian schools in northeast Syria. The Kurdish YPG/PYD, which until recently effectively ruled northeast Syria, tried for years to force its own textbooks on Assyrian schools in the region. The YPG/PYD claimed its new textbooks aim to undo decades of Arabization, but a closer look reveals they merely replace it with Kurdification. The textbooks promote a subtle Kurdish nationalist narrative that distorts the region’s history and glorifies the imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan. One primary school textbook presents a revisionist version of Kurdish history, portraying the Kurdish tribes–whose Iranian origins and later migration into Mesopotamia are well documented–as the indigenous population of the region. The chapter includes a fabricated map of a so-called historical Kurdish homeland with no basis in historical reality. In the same book, Assyria is reduced to a mere historical reference. One textbook even includes a section titled “The Morality of Abdullah Öcalan,” presenting a terrorist leader responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, including Assyrians, as a moral hero for schoolchildren to look up to. The full article: assyriapost.com/inside-the-k… #PKK #YPG #PYD #Syria #Kurd #Kurds #Assyria #Assyrian #Arab #terrorism

EXPOSING YPG/PKK PROPAGANDA AS IT UNFOLDS As we have reported in previous posts, the YPG militia has deliberately entrenched itself in Assyrian villages and areas in northeast Syria, shelling SAA positions from these hideouts to provoke SAA counter-fire. The goal is to exploit the SAA response in the propaganda war, portraying it as deliberate targeting of Assyrians, Christians, and churches. We posted on 28 January about YPG shelling SAA positions from the town of Tell Tammer and surrounding Assyrian villages. Kurdish news sources closely tied to PKK/YPG political and military structures have done exactly as predicted, as shown in screenshots from newly published pieces by ANHA (Hawar News Agency) and ANF News Agency. They framed the SAA counter-fire as an attack on Christians and a church. Since the 1990s, the PKK and its affiliates have used this tactic, starting in southeast Turkey. The PKK would enter Assyrian villages, knowing the Turkish army would pursue them and impose curfews, bringing the war to Assyrian areas. This caused deaths, destruction, displacement, and exile for many Assyrians, emptying villages that Kurds later settled. The PKK has employed the same approach in northern Iraq, entering Assyrian villages like those in the Nahla valley to make them targets of the Turkish air force, forcing many Assyrians to flee lands later taken over by Kurds. These and other tactics used by the PKK and related Kurdish movements over decades have turned indigenous Assyrians into a minority on their own ancestral lands – lands now claimed as part of a Kurdish homeland. President @realDonaldTrump was accurate in October 2019 when he described the PKK as "probably a bigger terrorist threat than ISIS": “Now the PKK, which is part of the Kurds, as you know, is probably worse at terror, and more of a terrorist threat in many ways than ISIS… if you look at the Kurds, and again I say this with great respect, they’re no angels.” #Syria #Kurds #Kurdish #YPG #SDF #PKK #Assyria #Assyrian #terrorism #propaganda #war @LindseyGrahamSC, @JDVance, @marcorubio, @realDonaldTrump, @SecRubio, @kajakallas, @vonderleyen, @RepJoeWilson, @RepTroyNehls, @RepMcCaul, @DeptofWar, @PeteHegseth, @RepGregoryMeeks, @HouseForeign, @StateDept_NEA, @POTUS, @EmmanuelMacron, @USAMBTurkiye, @jeremycorbyn, @CENTCOM, @DavidLammy, @TRobinsonNewEra @LindseyGrahamSC @JDVance @marcorubio @realDonaldTrump @SecRubio @RepJoeWilson @RepTroyNehls @RepMcCaul @PeteHegseth @RepGregoryMeeks @HouseForeign @StateDept_NEA @POTUS @TRobinsonNewEra @EvaVlaar @D_Tarczynski @TuckerCarlson @TCNetwork @MLP_officiel @PM_ViktorOrban @BalazsOrban_HU @rodballester @Alice_Weidel @PatriotsEU @PatriotsEP @Jorgebuxade @tperkins

DEVELOPING Successive explosions in Tall Tamer and its Assyrian countryside – Assyrian church hit. Violent clashes between SAA and Arab tribal forces against YPG in the countryside of Tal Tamer this evening. SAA artillery targeting SDF positions hit the village of al-Ghebesh, as well as the Assyrian Mar Shmouni Church in the village of Tel Jamaah. Assyrian sources report further that the YPG targeted the Al-Gharra area in the countryside of Jabal Abdul Aziz, as well as SAA positions in Ras al-Ayn, with a rocket artillery truck positioned in the village of Al-Aghibish in the countryside of Tal Tamer. The Syrian Arab Army then targeted the YPG with heavy artillery shelling that, in the villages of Al-Aghibish (al-Ghebesh), Al-Dardara, and Tel Jamaah, in addition to SDF fortifications at the "cattle station" in the vicinity of Tal Tamer. It being on the frontline, the YPG is heavily deployed in the Tel Tammer disrict, establishing mortar and artillery positions at strategic and elevated points, including the villages of Dardara, Ain al-Abd al-Hamra, Tell Shanan, Tell Nasri, Tell Maghas, and the entrance to the village of Tell Juma, extending to the placement of mortar and artillery positions in the center of the town of Tell Tamer. Meanwhile, "Tell al-Hamma" (formerly the water company) in the village of al-Rakba constitutes the YPG's largest military stronghold in the district, in which it has tanks, heavy artillery, and a complex network of tunnels deep within the hill, exploiting its strategic location overlooking all of Tell Tamer and its surrounding countryside. Just as expected, the YPG is intentionally firing from Assyrian villages to make the SAA respond and then frame the response as an attack against "Christians". It is a common tactic used by the PKK in Turkey, Iraq and now Syria. #YPG #Kurds #Syria #Assyrian #Christian #Arab @LindseyGrahamSC, @JDVance, @marcorubio, @realDonaldTrump, @SecRubio, @kajakallas, @vonderleyen, @RepJoeWilson, @RepTroyNehls, @RepMcCaul, @DeptofWar, @PeteHegseth, @RepGregoryMeeks, @HouseForeign, @StateDept_NEA, @POTUS, @EmmanuelMacron, @USAMBTurkiye, @jeremycorbyn, @CENTCOM, @DavidLammy, @TRobinsonNewEra