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    British man fighting with Syrian Kurds killed in battle against Islamic State

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    Post by Rocky Tue 03 Jan 2017, 4:39 am

    British man fighting with Syrian Kurds killed in battle against Islamic State
    Posted on January 3, 2017 by Editorial Staff in Kurdistan
    British man fighting with Syrian Kurds killed in battle against Islamic State Ryan-Lock-fighting-with-Syrian-Kurds-killed-in-Islamic-State-battle-Dec-21-2016-family-guardian
    British man, Ryan Lock, fighting with Syrian Kurds killed in battle against Islamic State on Dec 21, 2016. Photo: Family/Guardian
    LONDON,— Ryan Lock, a British man has been killed fighting with Syrian Kurds against Islamic State in northern Syria, his family and Kurdish activists have said.
    Lock, 20, from Chichester, West Sussex, died on 21 December during an offensive by anti-Islamic State forces to recapture the city of Raqqa, the extremist group’s de facto capital.
    Lock’s father, Jon, said in a statement: “Ryan was a very caring and loving boy who would do any thing to help anyone. He had a heart of gold. We ask for privacy to allow our family to grieve.”

    Lock, who had no previous military experience and had worked as a chef before travelling to Syrian Kurdistan, was one of many foreign volunteers who have joined the People’s Defence Units (YPG), the Kurdish military force fighting in northern Syria.
    In a letter, the YPG offered their condolences to his family, saying: “Ryan joined actively in our offensive against the terror threat that Isis caused upon Rojava, Kurdistan. Here, on the dark hours of 21 December 2016, we lost our brave companion Ryan and four other fighters in Jaeber village.
    “Ryan was not only a fighter providing additional force to our struggle. In fact, with his experience and knowledge he has been an example for younger fighters. While he has reached a vast amount of achievement up in our frontlines, Ryan has served the purpose of a very important bridge between us, the Kurds of Rojava. He crossed continents for the destiny of our people and humanity.”
    It is understood that Lock travelled to Syria last August after telling family and friends that he was going to Turkey on holiday.
    In a message on Facebook on 31 August, he wrote: “I’m on my way to Rojava. I lied about going to Turkey. I’m sorry I didn’t tell anyone. I love all of you and I will be back in six months.”
    He joined up with the YPG on 4 September where he was given the nom de guerre Berxwedan Givara, meaning “resistance Guevara”, after the Communist revolutionary Che Guevara.
    On 24 November he witnessed the deaths of most of his unit when it was bombed, allegedly by Turkish jets, in Arima, a village 13 miles north-east of the Isis-held city of Bab.
    Twelve YPG fighters were killed in the airstrike, including an American, Michael Israel, and a German national, Anton Leschek.
    Afterwards, Lock posted a picture of himself with facial injuries, along with the words: “We were taking a small village when we got hit by Turkish jets in the night. Two of my friends, Anton and Michael, were killed among many others. I’m staying to finish out my six months. f*** [Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan and f*** Turkey.”
    The United States has supported the Kurdish-led forces in their fight against Islamic State, infuriating Ankara which sees the YPG as an extension of the Kurdish PKK militants who have waged a three-decade insurgency in south-east Turkey.
    Turkey fears the YPG will try to connect three de facto autonomous Kurdish cantons that have emerged during the five-year war to create a Kurdish-run enclave in Syrian Kurdistan (northern Syria), stoking the Kurds’ desire for autonomy on its own soil.
    On August 24, Turkey has launched an incursion into northern Syria to stop the US-backed Kurdish YPG forces from connecting Syrian Kurdistan’s Kobani and Hasaka in the east with Afrin canton in the west. Turkish military operations are focused on Syrian Kurdish forces and not Islamic State, observers say.
    In 2013, Syrian Kurds have established three autonomous zones, or Cantons of Jazeera, Kobani and Afrin and a Kurdish government across Syrian Kurdistan (northern Syria) in 2013. On March 17, 2016 Syria’s Kurds declared a federal region in Syrian Kurdistan.
    Syrian Kurdish groups and their allies on Dec. 30, 2016 have approved a blueprint for a system of federal government in Syrian Kurdistan, reaffirming their plans for autonomy in areas they have controlled during the civil war.

    http://ekurd.net/british-syrian-kurds-killed-2017-01-03
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