The Kurdish Role in the Syrian Revolution
Ethnic minority increasingly entering into protest movement The Syrian popular revolution, right from its beginning, encompassed all segments of Syrian society. The country’s Kurdish community, the second largest and a key national component, was part of the protests that started in Dara’a on March 15, 2011 and spread to other Syrian cities, reaching Kurdish-dominated northeastern [...]
A map of Syria on Azadi Friday
The map shows the location of protests around Syria on Friday, May 20, dubbed “Azadi Friday”. Azadi means Freedom in Kurdish. The map also includes (preliminary) figures of protesters killed in the different towns (the actual number has been confirmed to be much higher) and the use of tanks and live ammunition. The information was [...]
The “gift” of Citizenship is not enough
Analysis: Why the Kurds won´t be appeased by Decree No. 49 By Massoud Akko It was a clear and quick message: tens of thousands of Kurds marched, in several Syrian cities, to tell the Syrian regime that the Kurds are for reform and freedom and not only demanding citizenship. That message came out only hours [...]
A Decade in Power, part 4: Syrian Kurds - bolder, but still oppressed
As the largest ethnic minority in Syria, Kurds were hoping in 2000 that their political, social and cultural rights would be finally recognised under the new president. But the past ten years proved to be disappointing. Despite being a repressed minority in Syria, Syrian Kurds over the last ten years have become more vocal in [...]
Syrian Kurds protest against Turkish TV drama
SMN No. 6, July 23, 2010 A group of Kurds from Syria and elsewhere have launched a Facebook campaign to call on Arab satellite TV channels to stop airing a Turkish drama accused of racist content against Kurds. The series, called “the good land”, which is broadcast on the Saudi-owned MBC dubbed in Arabic, is [...]
A Foreigner in My Own Country
By a Syrian Stateless Kurd It was supposed to be one of the happiest nights of my life. One evening, my wife and I left our hometown in north-eastern Syria heading towards the historical city of Aleppo. It was just three days after our wedding night. We were eager to enjoy our honeymoon in that [...]
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