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    YPG-led forces recapture the whole of Kobanî city in late January 2015

    So counting the recapture, it’s a little less than 10 years but [t]he region gained its de facto autonomy in 2012 which is 12 years and counting. I hope you didn’t think I sided with the Islamic State for some reason which sieged the city for 6 months.

    Edit: Or are you victim blaming them for being attacked by the IS? In that case, I don’t want to enter your library…

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        Both democracy and socialism have a wide range of meanings. AANES has a confederal council democracy, a much more direct democracy than the US or any other nation state. Their concept of socialism is much more radical than Sanders’s.