Martyr Tahseen Mammo Battalion
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The Martyr Tahseen Mammo Battalion was a small Kurdish Free Syrian Army group based in the city of Amuda, northern al-Hasakah governorate. It was founded in 2012 by members of the Kurdish Unity Party in Syria (aka Yekîtî), though the party denied any official connection to armed groups. The group was named after a Yekîtî member who was murdered in the infamous Sednaya prison in 2008. Like many of the other smaller Kurdish Military Council members, the Martyr Tahseen Mammo Battalion was fiercely critical of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the People's Protection Units (YPG) but recognized the Kurdish Supreme Committee and tried to avoid armed clashes. This stance did not spare it from harassment by the PYD's security apparatus, which conducted a number of arrests (and in some cases abductions) of Yekîtî members, including fighters with the Battalion, over the course of 2013. By the end of the year, the group had all but ceased to exist. Mounting territorial losses to jihadist groups, however, convinced the PYD/YPG to change its strategy. After the release of political prisoners and a cautious rapprochement between the PYD and the Kurdish National Council (of which Yekîtî was a member), the Martyr Tahseen Mammo Battalion reactivated and participated in the fight against the Islamic Emirate.