ANKARA (AA) – The YPG/PKK formed a new terror outfit comprising of foreign terrorists on Wednesday, including those of Armenian descent, in areas it occupies within territories of Syria.
The terrorist group was named after Armenian terrorist Nubar Ozanyan and formed in the wake of France declaring April 24 as a day of commemoration of the events of 1915.
The YPG/PKK declared the organization’s intention to be “the defense of Rojava against Turkey, ” and that it embraced the terrorist Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) as its precursor.
In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU — has been responsible for the deaths of nearly 40,000 people, including women and children.
Founded in 1975 in Beirut, Lebanon, during the Lebanese Civil War, ASALA is responsible for hundreds of bloody terror acts.
During 1975-1984, ASALA martyred over 30 Turkish diplomats and officials in various attacks. The Armenian terrorist acts intensified from 1980 to 1983, when 580 of the 699 attacks occurred. The terrorist attacks ended in 1986.
Ozanyan was killed in 2017, fighting for the YPG/PKK as the so-called Middle East commander of TKP/ML TIKKO, a sub-group which carried out assassinations and bombings and clashes with security forces in Turkey.
Turkey's position on the events of 1915 is that the deaths of Armenians in eastern Anatolia took place when some sided with invading Russians and revolted against Ottoman forces. A subsequent relocation of Armenians resulted in numerous casualties.
Turkey objects to the presentation of these incidents as “genocide, ” describing them as a tragedy in which both sides suffered casualties.
