To celebrate 10 years of the Rojava Revolution, here's a handy guide to who all these groups are, what their acronyms mean, and how they're related. Dedicated to every journalist who's ever had to work out if the YPG are a government or a militia. #10YearsRojava I've also written a thread today about separatism and why we don't want to do it:

https://twitter.com/SabCharlie/status/1549062893559320577?t=El1jHR0gnEsO2JtuDmGHDg&s=19

🧵: Over here in the autonomous region of North and East Syria, we often like to talk about how we aren't separatists. But a lot of people don't seem to understand why we say that, or what we mean.

Fortunately, I like explaining things. Like with lots of things here, the ideological basis for this comes from the writings of Abdullah Öcalan. Back in the 80s, he participated in the founding of the PKK, whose goal was the decolonisation of Kurdistan and the creation of a socialist system there.

For my followers who aren't experts on middle eastern politics, here's a summary and explanation of all that stuff I've been tweeting about for the last few days - Turkey, Gare, all that stuff. Gare is a mountain in the autonomous region of Kurdistan, in Northern Iraq (also known as Başur, or South Kurdistan). It's held by the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), a formerly Maoist group who share an ideology with the YPG. They're pretty great.