Kurds Declare Mixed Syria Town Part of Autonomous Region
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Syria's Kurds have incorporated a mixed town they captured from the Islamic State group into territory they claim in the country's north, a leading party said Wednesday.
The move to bring the border town of Tal Abyad into the autonomous administration led by Kurdish forces in the country's north and northeast comes as the Kurds work increasingly closely with Arab forces against President Bashar Assad's regime.
According to the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), Tal Abyad's local council agreed Wednesday their town would be ruled by "autonomous administration, formally part of the autonomous administration in the Kobane canton."
In June, Kurdish forces and their Arab rebel allies expelled IS from Tal Abyad, in Syria's northern Raqa province, after fierce clashes.
A local council of Kurds and Arabs has since overseen the town's affairs.
Quoted in the PYD's statement, local official Ferhad Derek said Tal Abyad would become "a model of peaceful coexistence for all the Syrian people."
A Kurdish-led autonomous administration has ruled parts of northern and northeastern Syria since government troops withdrew from majority-Kurdish areas in 2012.
The territories are divided into three "cantons," Jazira in Syria's northeast, Kobane in the north, and Afrin in the northwest.
Kurdish affairs analyst Mutlu Civiroglu told AFP that Kurds, Arabs and others in Tal Abyad had agreed to "democratic autonomy."
"However this does not mean they will be separate, but part of Kobane canton," he said.
Earlier this month, Kurds and allied rebel groups formalized their alliance by announcing a joint military force called the Syrian Democratic Forces, which included Kurds, Arabs, and Syriac Christians.
21 October 2015, 18:31
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The Kurds deserve their own country. They have their own culture and language. They are secular and are neither turk nor arab. God bless them and hopefully out of this whole tragedy in the middle east, they will get their deserved nation!
21 October 2015, 18:39
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Kurds are one of the few "normal" people in Syria. Between stalinist Assad and and Criminal daesh, Nosra appears as a solution, and kurds appear as a miracle
21 October 2015, 18:57
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Al Qaida's Jabhat al-Nusra appears as a solution? This solution has killed and kiddnapped LAF and ISF and eaten the hearts of syrian army soldiers. They attack Ras el Baalbek and other christian villages in lebanon's bekaa on a weakly basis. The leader of Al Nusra said in an interview with Al Jazeera that all infidels will be allowed to convert or be beheaded!
This is the Levant... The land of minorities. Its not a takfiri, arab land! There can be no future for Al Qaida's Al Nusra!
21 October 2015, 19:51
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Indeed, they deserve their State and free country for the things you mentionned here.
I am stunned on how people just support failing new artificial Arab States like "Palestine" (while they have nothing special: Arab language and culture like Jordan) but don't care about underdog people like Kurds or Arameans.
21 October 2015, 18:38
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Sure, God Bless them according to another well informed Aouni secular propagandist.
Amnesty International Accuses Kurds of War Crimes
http://www.themedialine.org/mideast-daily-news/amnesty-international-accuses-kurds-of-war-crimes/
US-backed Kurdish forces 'committing war crimes against Syrian civilians'
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/us-backed-kurdish-forces-committing-war-crimes-against-syrian-civilians
Amnesty report accuses US-backed Kurdish forces of 'war crimes' in northern Syria
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-13/amnesty-accuses-syrian-kurdish-forces-of-war-crimes/6849580
US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria 'may have committed war crimes'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11929655/US-backed-Kurdish-forces-in-Syria-may-have-committed-war-crimes.html
21 October 2015, 19:15
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These Kurds are takfiris just like all the other forces who oppose president Assad. But fear not Putin is coming yall!
21 October 2015, 21:35
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U seem to be really sure about hassakeh, yes the kurd faught isis but not with the regime...
And as for the moderate rebel alliance, who knows maybe we will see a lot of those accros syria from now on, so they can fight isis in an organise and effician manet, that is ur goal no? fight takfiri?anyway i hope so...
:)
22 October 2015, 01:44
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The Kurds are the most effective fighting force fighting Daesh. . .Yes God Bless them!!!
22 October 2015, 04:23
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texas, the troll above is mowaten. You can tell by the way he writes his usual arrogant sectarian filth.
22 October 2015, 06:22
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we need to separate from the wahabi savages, let them rot in whatever land they hold.
