Category:People's Protection Units

**People's Defense Units**
	mainly-Kurdish militia in Syria
	Upload media
	Wikipedia
Instance of	militia; military unit;
Part of	Syrian Democratic Forces;
Location	Syria;
Official language	Kurdish language;
Headquarters location	Syria;
Inception	2004;
Dissolved, abolished or demolished	25 August 2026;
Different from	People's Defence Forces;
	official website
Authority file
	Q277036; VIAF cluster ID: 3694150869800922190001; GND ID: 1158633351; Library of Congress Authorities ID: no2018041913; IdRef ID: 197857043; NL CR AUT ID: olak2016934723; National Library of Poland MMS ID: 9810671440705606
	Reasonator; Scholia; Wikidocumentaries; PetScan; statistics; WikiMap; Locator tool; KML file; Search depicted;

<nowiki>Unidades de Protección Popular; Kurd Népvédelmi Egységek; Varnarsveitir Kúrda; Herri Babesaren Unitateak; خالق قوْرۇما دسته‌لری; Volksverteidigungseinheiten; Volksverteidigungseinheiten; Aonaid um Chosaint an Phobail; یگان‌های مدافع خلق; 人民保護部隊; Kurdiske Beskyttelsesenheder; Halk Koruma Birlikleri; クルド人民防衛隊; Folkets försvarsenheter; Загони народної оборони; Yekîneyên Parastina Gel; 인민수비대; Njësitë e Mbrojtjes së Popullit; People's Protection Units; Lidové obranné jednotky; குர்து மக்களின் பாதுகாப்புப் படைகள்; Unità di Protezione Popolare; Μονάδες Προστασίας του Λαού; Unités de protection du peuple; Атрады народнай самаабароны; Аддзелы народнай абароны; وحدات حماية الشعب; YPG; Yekîneyên Parastina Gel; היחידות להגנת העם; Отряды народной самообороны; Unitati di prutizzioni pupulari; Unidades de Proteção Popular; Xalq Qoruma Dəstələri; Unitats de Protecció Popular; Kansan suojeluyksiköt; Народне заштитне јединице; Narodne zaštitne jedinice; Unitățile de Apărare a Poporului; Unidades de Proteção Popular; People's Protection Units; Satuan Perlindungan Rakyat; Powszechne Jednostki Ochrony; خلقˇ دفاعˇ جرگهٰ‌ن; Volksbeschermingeenheden; Unitats de Proteccion del Pòple; Protektaj Taĉmentoj de la Popolo; خلق مدافعون یگان; یەکەکانی پاراستنی گەل; People's Defense Units; وحدات حماية الشعب; Unvezioù difenn ar bobl; یەکینەیێن پاراستنا گەل; milicia kurda de autodefensa componente de las Fuerzas Democráticas Sirias; milice kurde en Syrie; курдзкая міліцыя ў Сырыі; курдская милиция в Сирии; bewaffnete kurdische Miliz in Syrien; Milícia predominantemente curda na Síria; شاخه‌ای از نیروهای سوریه دموکراتیک در کردستان سوریه; 主要由库尔德人组成的叙利亚地区的民兵; The People's Protection Units (Kurdish: Yekîneyên Parastina Gel; Arabic: وحدات حماية الشعب[5] Wihdat Himayah ash-Sha'ab).; miliție kurdă din Siria; Suriye'deki çoğunlukla Kürt milisler; facció armada oficial de Comitè Suprem Kurd de Rojava; قوات سوريا الديمقراطيه; kurdyjskie siły zbrojne; מיליציה סורית-כורדית; Suriyada fəal olan silahlı qruplaşma; курдська міліція Сирії; kurdisk milis; esercito nazionale del Kurdistan siriano; ھێزە چەکدارەکانی کوردی ڕۆژاوا; mainly-Kurdish militia in Syria; قوة عسكرية منظمة ذات غالبية كردية في سوريا; organisatie uit Syrië; قوة عسكرية منظمة ذات غالبية كردية في سوريا; YPG; Halkçı Koruma Birlikleri; Halk Savunma Birlikleri; YPG; YPG; ОНС; YPG; Y.P.G; YPG; Unidades de Proteccion Popular; YPG; People's Protection Units; Kurdish People's Protection Units; People Protection Units; People's Defense Unit; ی‌پ‌گ; یگان مدافعان خلق; YPG; குர்து மக்களின் பாதுகாப்புப் படைகள் (சிரியா)</nowiki>

The People's Protection Units (Kurdish: Yekîneyên Parastina Gel), commonly known as the YPG, is the armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syrian Kurdistan. The group is an armed Kurdish force in Syria and is actively engaged in the Syrian Civil War and the war against ISIL. It is notable for the large number of female combatants within its ranks.