YPG

Quality:

People's Defense Units - mainly-Kurdish militia in Syria. Article “YPG” in Turkish Wikipedia has 98 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 175 references and 20 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

In June 2026 the article “YPG” was edited by 1 authors in Turkish Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “YPG”, its content was written by 180 registered users of Turkish Wikipedia (850^th place) and edited by 1474 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 365 times in Turkish Wikipedia and cited 5882 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Turkish): #31 in May 2017
• Global: #925 in December 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Turkish): #8 in October 2019
• Global: #2138 in October 2019

There are 33 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Turkish (tr) YPG		97.9777
2	German (de) Volksverteidigungseinheiten		95
3	English (en) People's Defense Units		80.9276
4	French (fr) Unités de protection du peuple		78.4966
5	Dutch (nl) Volksbeschermingseenheden		65.6112
6	Spanish (es) Unidades de Protección Popular		58.7229
7	Romanian (ro) Unitățile de Apărare a Poporului		51.613
8	Polish (pl) Powszechne Jednostki Ochrony		50.1144
9	Danish (da) YPG		45.9958
10	Tamil (ta) குர்து மக்களின் பாதுகாப்புப் படைகள் (சிரியா)		42.1017

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) People's Defense Units		4 281 253
2	Turkish (tr) YPG		1 484 261
3	German (de) Volksverteidigungseinheiten		1 062 651
4	French (fr) Unités de protection du peuple		427 409
5	Russian (ru) Отряды народной самообороны		317 294
6	Arabic (ar) وحدات حماية الشعب		285 287
7	Spanish (es) Unidades de Protección Popular		240 271
8	Italian (it) Unità di Protezione Popolare		207 467
9	Persian (fa) یگان‌های مدافع خلق		194 249
10	Japanese (ja) クルド人民防衛隊		135 125

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) People's Defense Units		9 887
2	Turkish (tr) YPG		3 543
3	German (de) Volksverteidigungseinheiten		1 303
4	Italian (it) Unità di Protezione Popolare		1 008
5	French (fr) Unités de protection du peuple		961
6	Russian (ru) Отряды народной самообороны		761
7	Persian (fa) یگان‌های مدافع خلق		705
8	Japanese (ja) クルド人民防衛隊		357
9	Spanish (es) Unidades de Protección Popular		351
10	Chinese (zh) 人民保護部隊		266

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) People's Defense Units		444
2	German (de) Volksverteidigungseinheiten		246
3	Turkish (tr) YPG		180
4	French (fr) Unités de protection du peuple		86
5	Arabic (ar) وحدات حماية الشعب		75
6	Italian (it) Unità di Protezione Popolare		52
7	Dutch (nl) Volksbeschermingseenheden		47
8	Hebrew (he) היחידות להגנת העם		37
9	Spanish (es) Unidades de Protección Popular		35
10	Russian (ru) Отряды народной самообороны		30

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Volksverteidigungseinheiten		3
2	Azerbaijani (az) Xalq Müdafiə Birlikləri		1
3	Esperanto (eo) Protektaj Taĉmentoj de la Popolo		1
4	French (fr) Unités de protection du peuple		1
5	Romanian (ro) Unitățile de Apărare a Poporului		1
6	Turkish (tr) YPG		1
7	Arabic (ar) وحدات حماية الشعب		0
8	Belarusian (be) Атрады народнай самаабароны		0
9	Catalan (ca) Unitats de Protecció Popular		0
10	Czech (cs) Lidové obranné jednotky		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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