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| Kurds deal with underage nuptials, polygamy in Syria |
| 2016-11-15 |
| [ARA News] Qamishli – While in areas held by the Syrian government or the opposition polygamy and underage marriages are allowed and even promoted, the Syrian Kurds are the only ones providing a secular model in which polygamy and underage marriages are banned. Since July 2012, the People’s Protection Units (YPG) took control of most of the Kurdish enclaves in Syria and since the siege of Kobane in September 2014 have gained international attention for being one of the most effective groups to fight the head-cutting militants of the Islamic State (ISIS). Local administrations were set up in northern Syria, known in Kurdish as Rojava. Also, unlike the rest of Syria, in the Rojava there are females commanding units and actively fighting as part of the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), the female branch of the YPG. These female fighters fought to the death to defend the city of Kobane, breaking thoughts about the role of women in the Kurdish society. Now they are involved in fighting ISIS in Raqqa. |
| Posted by:badanov |