Posted on 01/22/2014 12:11:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
Syrian Kurds have expectedly annonunced their autonomy in northern Syria's Qamishli.
Syrian Kurds has declared an autonomous state in the northern Syria.
The admisntration was named Cizre Canton and will have 20 different ministers.
The capital of the government wil be in the city of Qamishli, with Ekrem Heso serving as president.
About a month ago, Salih Muslim, the leader of Syria’s most dominant Kurdish party, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), announced that Syrian Kurds are looking to establish three separate autonomous federal states in the country’s north.
The two other provinces are excepted to be Kobani and Afrin.
It’ll be interesting to see if they can make this stick.
Pretty substantial. If this holds, the Kurds from surrounding countries will flood in.
See how the Turks react. The Turks seem to look warily on Syrian Kurds but have good relations with Iraqi Kurds.
I think that would be a good thing.
Wow!
Big news day. Aetna, and now this.
Yes, it will be good for them. The question is will Assad respond to this, can he? Will the Jihadists?
If the Kurds pull it off, the Christians should all migrate to one area, and do the same. Break up Syria.
Wonder what they will call it? I guess Kerry cannot solve their problems.
The Kurds have done a monstrous pest control service, wiping out every jihadi they could find on their turf in northeastern Syria and northern Iraq. It appears that they have earned control of their own business, which is the only thing they have ever wanted.
Besides, they have spunky dance music and strong pretty women.
Hmm...was Joe Biden right after all?
If Kurdistan became an independent country, it would take a bite out of not only Syria, but also Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Azerbaijan, and be a most excellent buffer state, as they are fiercely xenophobic, despising Armenians, Turks, Farsi, Arabs and Alawites with the vehemence normally reserved by most Muslims for the Jewish people.
The Kurds have certainly suffered at the hands of their neighbors for the last three or four millennia. A sort of cross between Turkic and Arabic people, with an admixture of Mongols from Genghis Khan’s Golden Horde, they were once at the same level among other Islamic people as the “Palestinians” today. Outcast from other lands, they are subjugated as foreigners within the boundaries of the place of their birth. But they have become most excellent oilfield workers and managers, and with this growing economic power, they are flexing their muscle.
The Kurds deserve their own nation.
Connected to the Mediterranean Sea so there is a route for oil exports.
Agree. Along with the Kurdish region of Iraq, this could end up being an actual recognized state at some point not too distant.
Predicted Syria would break up into 3 regions; Alawite,(which briefly existed after WWI) Kurd, and ?
Will the FR kartogapher please step forward and furnish a map ?
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The two other provinces are excepted to be Kobani and Afrin.
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The Kurds have always been Whey Ahead of the rest of the muslim world.
They will be able to tuffit out, I believe.
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