The Turkish defense ministry said the fighters were members of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and the outlawed Kurdistan ...

Kurds ended up in IDP (internally displaced person) camps near Tal Rifaat in the Aleppo area. In Aleppo, the Kurds also controlled their own areas, centered around the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood.

Tayfun was not the only overseas person who posted messages in Japanese about Kurdish residents of Japan. One account owner called on “lying Kurds to get out of Japan.” That poster told The ...