Baladi News
A total of 45 individuals from Germany have travelled to Iraq and Syria since April 2017 to join the ranks of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), according to data from the German Interior Ministry, Germany’s Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung reported.
The German Interior Ministry released data on people joining the YPG in response to a parliamentary question submitted by the Left Party. Prior to April 2017, the number of people from Germany who joined YPG ranks in Iraq and Syria was 204, 69 of whom were German citizens.
The YPG allegedly supports the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK). Turkey has designated the YPG as a terrorist organization, and in 2018 Turkey caotured most of Afrin Canton in Syria from YPG.
Source: Turkish Minute