^ 1.01.1Gold, Danny. Meet the YPG, the Kurdish militia that doesn't want help from anyone. VICE. 31 October 2012 [9 October 2014]. (原始内容存档于2016-04-13). A member of YPG’s central command … said that the YPG formed in 2004 shortly after the Qamishlo riots, when a number of Kurdish youth realized that they needed to be able to defend themselves more efficiently. They did not officially declare themselves until the revolution started in 2011.参数|magazine=与模板{{cite news}}不匹配(建议改用{{cite magazine}}或|newspaper=) (帮助)
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