‘Haven’t the Kurds suffered sufficient?’ Hillary Clinton to supply TV drama on Kurdish girls fighters

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Hillary and Chelsea Clinton are producing a TV collection based mostly on the exploits of feminine Kurdish fighters in Syria. Anticipate a whitewashed story of girlboss feminism, that simply could also be terrible sufficient to lastly unite the Kurds and Turks.

The Clintons, by way of their Hidden Gentle Productions firm, have acquired the TV rights to writer Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s ‘The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Revolt, Braveness, and Justice,’ Deadline revealed on Monday. The guide tells the story of an all-female Kurdish militia group famed for combating Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS) in northern Syria – with American assist.

“The Daughters of Kobani is a unprecedented account of courageous, defiant girls combating for justice and equality,” mentioned Hillary Clinton. 

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Clinton has a protracted and storied historical past with the ladies’s militia, the YPJ, an offshoot of the male-led YPG. The YPJ/YPG’s sister group, the PKK, has been waging a low-intensity battle with Turkey for greater than 4 many years, and within the 1990s was declared a terrorist group by the administration of Invoice Clinton. The ideological chief of each teams, Abdullah Ocalan, was captured by Turkey with alleged assist from the CIA in 1999.

As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was an advocate for arming the YPG and YPJ in the course of the Syrian Civil Battle. Airdrops of weapons started in 2015 and YPG/YPJ fighters counted on US air help to beat again IS from 2016 onwards, but throughout this time the US was additionally permitting arms to fall into the fingers of the identical jihadist teams the ladies have been combating in opposition to. That the YPG at the moment guard oil fields in northern Syria, and don’t have any intention of handing them again to Syrian President Bashar Assad, is unquestionably a bonus for Clinton, who declared way back to 2012 that “Assad should go!”

As such, commenters reckoned Clinton doubtless wasn’t one of the best instructor to be taught in regards to the Kurds from.

Neither is the supply materials fully impartial both. Lemmon is a senior fellow on the Council on Overseas Relations, a neoconservative assume tank. She opposed former president Donald Trump’s deliberate withdrawal from Afghanistan, vocally condemned his withdrawal from Syria, and condemned Russia’s involvement within the Syrian battle – although Moscow’s marketing campaign has been extensively credited with destroying a lot of IS’ territorial beneficial properties.

The Clintons have little expertise in tv, and Hidden Gentle Productions solely has one different undertaking within the works: a collection adaptation of Hillary and Chelsea’s feminist kids’s story, ‘The Guide of Gutsy Girls’. Regardless of the political slant of their newest undertaking, commenters predicted a ham-fisted completed product.

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