BBC - Allegations against the Kurds of Syria and PYD response by guneyyildiz published on 2015-06-03T09:36:46Z Northeastern Syria is one of the key battlegrounds in the Syrian conflict. It is an ethnically mixed area that over the past three years has regularly changed hands between the Syrian regime, the Free Syrian Army, various groups linked to Al qaeda , ISIS and the YPG - the Kurdish militia that has become a key ally of the US in the war against IS. Earlier this week - The Times- ran an article alleging that Kurdish forces are carrying out 'what appears to be a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Sunni Arabs' in the region. The author of that report is Hannah Lucinda Smith - so What have people been telling her? And what does YPG make of these allegations? Jiwan Efrin, is a representative of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) of Syrian Kurds in London. Genre ypg