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New Dangers for Opposition Kurds
AYN AL-ARAB (KOBANI), ALEPPO PROVINCE – Aladine Hamam, a member of the Azadi party, spent almost two months in jail this year, accused of being a Turkish agent and with setting up an armed group that doesn’t answer to the PYD, the predominant political party. His case highlights the divisions among Kurds on the future of the ethnic group in Syria and the unchecked power of the PYD (or Syrian Democratic Party) in Kurdish-controlled territories. .