This might be our most controversial episode, yet.
What is the relationship between the Assad regime and Syrian Kurds? How did Kurds react to the Syrian revolution? Why is it that a majority of Syrian Kurds came to prefer the YPG over the Free Syrian Army?
A lot of it has to do with societal attitudes that go back decades before the Syrian Revolution.
Peshmerge is a Syrian Kurd from Aleppo who participated in the 2011 protests and vehemently supported the Syrian Opposition. His opinion changed as the opposition gradually changed from a big tent movement to one dominated by racists and religious fundamentalism.
Come and Get It By Scott Holmes
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Genocide by Silent Carrion
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