Kurdistan forces are liberating Western Kurdistan

[alan131210]

http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/defau ... nkurds.pdf

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Aiming for the heart of the Damascus regime, as our media likes to say, is obviously a tipping point. The fact that the Syrian rebels took over border crossings to Turkey is another powerful indicator that the regime is unraveling. But these are not the only primary signs that we are in the final stretch of the collapse of the regime.

The sure indicator of the eventual collapse of the regime is something our media did not notice: Kurds are taking control of Syrian Kurdish towns.

Last week, the entire official administration of Koban was ousted by armed Kurds. Similar developments were reported from two other important Kurdish towns -- Qamishli and Afrin -- close to the Turkish border.

About three million Syrian Kurds are concentrated on a stretch of territory from the area northwest of Aleppo along the border with Turkey all the way to Iraq. In a way, the Turkish-Syrian border is the Turkish-Kurdish border.

Who are these Kurds that took over these towns?

On the surface, it is the Syrian Kurdish National Council and the West Kurdistan Popular Assembly that announced their decision to act together in the Supreme Kurdish Council. You will remember that this decision was announced on July 12 in a meeting held in Erbil under the patronage of Massoud Barzani.

The National Council is an umbrella for more than a dozen Kurdish organizations, but most of them are nothing more than signboards.

The West Kurdistan Popular Assembly is actually the Democratic Union Party [PYD], which we can call the Syrian PKK. These towns were taken over by armed PYD units, and it couldn't be any other way as the PYD is the biggest Kurdish organization in the country. More than that, it is the only one that is truly armed. The PYD follows Abdullah Ocalan [the PKK leader imprisoned in Turkey] but gets its political strategy instructions from the Kandil Mountain base [in northern Iraq].

Syrian Kurds kept their distance both from the Damascus regime and the opposition, waiting for the right time. As they are now taking action to at least lay the foundations of "Kurdish autonomy," they must have decided that the time is ripe. Note that their actions are not aimed at toppling Assad and his regime. Their actions are occurring because the regime is collapsing anyway.

For the Kurds to take over the towns they live in is actually a preemptive move before whatever new regime assumes power in Damascus. This Kurdish uprising is the beginning of a state that opposes a future Sunni Arab Syria. Their minimal goal is autonomy.

All these developments can be traced to the July 12 Erbil Declaration.

Six months ago I wrote that if this goes on, Syria will split into ethnic and sectarian entities and become a "bigger Lebanon." This trend has not changed.

For our AKP government -- which isn't even able to resolve its own Kurdish issue and has squandered all opportunities of opening it up -- a "Lebanonized Syria" is actually a "second Northern Iraq."

A Turkey that is still in strife with its own Kurds could be forced to transfer this strife to the Syrian Kurdish region at great political, military and ethical costs. Ultimately, it could lose everything.

On the horizon for the "Second Northern Iraq" lies "Greater Kurdistan," which will entirely encircle the southern borders of Turkey.

Now, worried by that ominous sight, a bit embarrassed with missed opportunities and to stop the bill from getting more expensive, what if our leaders say: "Let's urgently make peace with our Kurds"? Will the PKK respond, "Why not? Let's do it"?

It is not easy to be optimistic about this scenario.

Those at the Kandil Mountains -- while waiting to see the final tally of advantages they will derive from Kurdish autonomy and how these advantages might be translated into tools for strategic bargaining -- will continue to say, "The ball is in Ankara's court."

http://www.aina.org/news/20120726005857.htm

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New Kurdish autonomous region threat to Turkey


A new autonomous Kurdistan in northern Syria is highly likely as Syria delves further into a civil war amid the ongoing cold war between the West and the veto allies Russia and China.

It is known by many if not all that most minority groups in Syria still support Syrian President Bashar Assad despite the regime in Damascus has become nothing but an armed militia with institutions and a state television. These minority groups support the Syrian regime for multiple of reasons. Most importantly they support the Assad regime for ensuring stability and their communities’ prosperity. The biggest of these minority groups are the Kurds of Syria, who live in close proximity to three bordering areas in the Middle East and constitute a serious threat to Turkey’s geopolitical interests in the region. While the Assad regime had won the support of the Kurds in the first weeks of the uprising in Syria, the regime had never recognized this minority’s presence in any way. Today, Kurds are present in the newly-established Syrian National Council, the Free Syrian Army and most importantly, many of them have taken control of towns and villages in northern Syria bordering Turkey.

At the demise of the Ottoman Empire in early 1900s, thousands of Kurds settled on the Syrian side of the border that was drawn by the Allies in the Sykes Picot Agreement. Villages where Kurds made a majority were torn into two pieces and families were separated along the Syrian-Turkish border.
In northern Iraq, Kurds are already strong and have an administrative autonomy on the region since the ouster of Iraqi Sunni leader Saddam Hussein in 2003. Kurds call the region that borders south eastern Turkey as West Kurdistan.

Historically and until this day, Kurds are present in north Lebanon’s Akkar, but they constitute the least threat to Turkey.
The Kurdish support to the Assad regime in the first weeks of the uprising in Syria won the community a considerable amount of arms.
But in the past several months, a decrease in the presence of regime forces in north eastern Syria has provided a significant military leverage to Syria’s Kurds in the region of Al-Hasakah and mainly in the cities of Qamishli and Al-Hasakah.

Although it is still unclear whether the recent decline in the number of troops in northern Syria is deliberately carried out by the regime to threaten Ankara from continuing its support to the Syrian opposition or it was a result of further defections in the army ranks, reports of complete abandoning of regions bordering Turkey has already troubled Turkish officials.

A meeting between the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Iraqi Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani in May has succeeded in deploying 2,000 Kurdish fighters along the Syrian-Iraqi border that would be used to confront Kurdish armed forces in north eastern Syria.
Closed-door negotiations between Turkish and Kurdish officials have so far failed to reach a broader agreement of a peace guarantee because of Ankara’s insistence to keep longtime Kurdish leader Abdallah Ocalan behind bars.

Ocalan was captured by the Americans in Kenya in 1999 and transferred to Turkey.

As official ties between Ankara and Damascus have terminated and a near state of enmity between them is in place, Assad regime will give Syria’s Kurds what they had never even imagined in the past several decades: a free autonomous region.
The likelihood of such autonomy, similar to northern Iraq would become a great possibility as Syria delves into a civil war amid the cold war between the West and the veto alliance of Russia and China.

To Assad’s plans, the Syrian opposition has responded with electing a Kurdish activist and writer Abdul Basit Sida as the President of the Syrian National Council (SNC). Although Sida is not very popular among the Kurdish Democratic Union Party in Syria because of its more moderate views, Turkey is engaging in a game of chess with Damascus. Earlier this week, Davutoglu met with Sida and other SNC members in Ankara to discuss the developments in Kurdish dominated regions in Syria.

For the past 17 months, Turkey has played a big role in supporting the Syrian uprising despite its knowledge of the resulting dangers to its geopolitical interests in the region. While Ankara still has Syria on top priority, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the ouster of a stable Sunni regime in Baghdad, the autonomy of Kurds in northern Iraq and the recent claims of a new Kurdish autonomous region in northern Syria will remain dangerous to Turkey.

http://beirutbeats.blogspot.co.uk/2012/ ... at-to.html

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In a written statement on recent developments in Syria, Democratic Society Congress (DTK) called on the Syrian and Turkish governments and all opponent circles to recognize and support the declaration of Kurdish Autonomy in Syria and the rights of the Kurdish people.

DTK underlined that “No power will be able to prevent the unevitable downfall of all nation-statist governments like that of Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria in the Middle East territory where people have enhanced their demands for democracy and freedom.”

The Kurdish people in Syria, as one of the most basic dynamic and organized powers in the country, have declared autonomy to ensure a democratic unity with other peoples under the rule of their own identity, language and government, said DTK and remarked that all international institutions and establishments should respect the declaration of Kurdish Autonomy as required by the respect for democracy, freedoms, rights and people.

“We support the Democratic Autonomy declared by Southwest Kurdistan people as an expression of an equal and free life with Syrian peoples”, noted DTK and ended calling on all states and peoples to make an effort to ensure a peace environment for all peoples in Syria.

http://www.firathaberajansi.org/haber/7 ... distan.anf

[alan131210]

very good article can some one translate it ? or find original one !?

Second Kurdistan
http://rudaw.net/kurdish/index.php/opinion/15846.html

[alan131210]

DHAKA: Two concerns were always present in the minds in Ankara about the Kurdish situation in Syria.

When Ankara had to burn the bridges with Damascus a while after the uprising reached Syria, these concerns turned into troubles.

The first one of them is the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) presence in Syria. This has to be seen in two subtitles: The support the PKK has collected from the Kurdish grassroots in Syria, and the assistance the Damascus regime provides for the PKK.

And maybe a third one: The fact that the PKK is operating in the Kurdish zone of Syria as if it were a paramilitary force on behalf of the Damascus regime… There is no unconditional ‘favour’ indeed.

The phenomenon that we call ‘the Syrian regime’s support for the PKK’ is the retaliation for the multi-variety support Ankara is providing for the rebellion in Syria.

The second part of the trouble is the potential of the Kurds in Syria to separate from the country. This too has become visible and tangible after the rebellion.

It has to be acknowledged that the Kurds in Syria, even though they have a politically segmented structure, have been acting with a remarkable awareness of ethnic interests from the beginning of the rebellion. Indeed, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which is the projection of the PKK in Syria, should be exempt from this ‘local sensitivity’.

Others, except the PYD, keep the same distance from both the oppressor and the oppressed regarding the clashes in the country as a ‘domestic issue of the Arabs’. Because, whoever wins in Syria, at the end of the day, the Kurds are able to see that they will still remain to be oppressed under the rule of the present oppressed who have a tendency to transform into new oppressors.

One part of the recommendations of Ankara to the Damascus regime before it cut loose from them was the improvement of the situation of the Kurds in Syria. Ankara wanted the weak building called ‘Syria’ to be reinforced by structural columns and support its foundations against the earthquakes of the Arab rebellion.

The Damascus regime had deprived a segment of the Kurds of their citizenship rights. Ankara asked Damascus to issue identification for them, thus, if the ‘Syrian’ building fractures or collapses, then the Kurds should not opt for building their own building.

Turkey continued to pursue the goal of Syrianisation of the Kurdish community in Syria after it bunt bridges with Bashar al-Assad. It was coached that Kurds should also join the Syrian National Council (SNC) that was set up in Istanbul sponsored by Ankara.

The aim in this was to provide that the Kurds, after the collapse of the Baath regime, should not opt for separation but identify themselves within the newly formed Syria.

In the present situation it is difficult to shove the Kurds under the SNC; because the Kurds do not want frightfully to draw the fury of the Baath regime on themselves.

In an interview published last week in daily Taraf, what Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) co-leader Selahattin Demirtaş told Neşe Düzel shed light on a reality of today.

Neşe Düzel: While the borders are being redrawn, will the Iraqi Kurdistan and Syrian Kurdistan unite?

Selahattin Demirtaş: I don’t see this happening in the short run. If Iraq is separated into three, it means the borders will be redrawn. A Kurdistan in Syria may be official. For the moment, there is already a Kurdistan state within Iran. As a result, from Hatay to Iğdır, Turkey’s entire south border will officially be with Kurdistan. Then, Turkey should put its thinking cap on and say, ‘I must urgently make peace with my own Kurds’.

A Turkey with a ‘Kurdish issue’ has always had troublesome relations with Kurds across its borders. kurdistan region of Iraq example is there.

If one of the outcomes of the Syrian crisis will be ‘Kurdish autonomy’ then that region will indeed turn into a second ‘kurdistan region of Iraq’ from Turkey’s angle.

However, more seriously, because of a direct or indirect PKK threat toward Turkey from that region, the emergence of that region as a military target on Ankara’s radar.

Whatever its justification may be… In an environment where the crisis in Syria is becoming more international, military operations from Turkey to Syria’s Kurdish region will draw the attention of the world to Turkey’s own Kurdish issue at a level unprecedented in recent years.

The more Turkey avoids solving its own Kurdish problem, the more inevitable this outcome will become: the internationalisation of the issue.

source: banglanews24

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A few days before last week's attack that killed four of Assad's top aides in Damascus, the main Syrian Kurdish groups – the Kurdish National Councils (KNC) and the Democratic Union party (PYD) – signed an important agreement in Erbil to set up a Supreme Kurdish Council to co-ordinate their efforts.

They agreed to form a popular defence force consisting mainly of Kurdish Syrian soldiers who have defected to Iraqi Kurdistan since the uprising began in March last year. These soldiers are being retrained in military camps funded by the oil-rich KRG and are preparing to enter the Kurdish areas in Syria to defend towns such as Kobani (Ayn al-Arab) that are in the hands of the Kurdish activists.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... al-council

as you can see there , PYD has formed its own armed groups and thus it has breached the Hawler agreement

Alan you start to get annoying with your paranoid claims about PYD breaching the Hawler agreement. Am I the only one or did you not understand what the article says. The article says that Kurdish people are trained by KRG to form a strong new army and you say PYD has breached the Hawler treatment. You constantly talk about PYD breaching thr Hawler treatment with the sam smiley face impression which really starts to annoy me

[alan131210]

and i am annoyed with PYD with their civilan cloths AK47s and their faces wrapped up, makes them look like trouble makers.

the syrian kurdish forces have not entered WK, bcoz 'pkk doesnt allow it' , and they wear the Peshmerga uniform as we saw in the vidoes earlier , the only armed group in WK i have seen is the PYD, and pics dont lie.

if WK is attacked and destroyed , then i hold PYD responsible for breaching Erbil agreement and history will not be kind to you our pyd/pkk.

if turkey can enter KRG like we saw in 2007, it so can do to WK which is not even an entity

Turkey warns it would strike Kurdish PKK fighters inside Syrian Kurdistan

http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/mi ... bU.twitter

[alan131210]

Mala Baxtyar senior PUK leader attacked in UK by fascist turks

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=449577711742812

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Exactly, the turks and arabs will find excuses and will try to strike west kurdistan just because of simple mistakes that we are doing right now.

Kak Masoud urged the PYD AND KNC to raise Kurdistan flag so that no one will disagree as it is a recognised flag. Therefore, PKK and PYD are responsible for breaching the agreement. What is so hard to follow the right instructions from South Kurdistan? KRG has experience of 21 years.

Everything is going very well and smooth right now in Western Kurdistan. The PYD and KNC SHOULD NOT RAISE ANY FLAG OTHER THAN KURDISTAN FLAG, OTHERWISE WE WILL NOT ACHIEVE ANYTHING.

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Mala Baxtyar senior PUK leader attacked in UK by fascist turks

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=449577711742812

This is very old.

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and i am annoyed with PYD with their civilan cloths AK47s and their faces wrapped up, makes them look like trouble makers.

the syrian kurdish forces have not entered WK, bcoz 'pkk doesnt allow it' , and they wear the Peshmerga uniform as we saw in the vidoes earlier , the only armed group in WK i have seen is the PYD, and pics dont lie.

if WK is attacked and destroyed , then i hold PYD responsible for breaching Erbil agreement and history will not be kind to you our pyd/pkk.

if turkey can enter KRG like we saw in 2007, it so can do to WK which is not even an entity

Turkey warns it would strike Kurdish PKK fighters inside Syrian Kurdistan

http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/mi ... bU.twitter

Your interpreting too much into news about PYD. You are annoyed about civil fighters with AK47 in their hand?? And Peshmerga fought with well cleaned suits in 2003? What are you a fashion designer?

The only thing I see here being annoying is your permament interpretation skills into news about PYD with this ( ) retarded looking face impression as if you are trolling or something. As I already asked have you even read the article yourself it states only that a Kurdish brigade was formed by Peshmerga which will enter when needed.

Do you know why they still did not enter? Do you really think the PYD is the reason? Have you forgotten the accuses Turkey made about Barzani sending "his Peshmerga" into Syria?

and history will not be kind to you our pyd/pkk.

Me? your a good writer on this Forum but sorry dude but from time to time you really get paranoid.

[alan131210]

Exactly, the turks and arabs will find excuses and will try to strike west kurdistan just because of simple mistakes that we are doing right now.

Kak Masoud urged the PYD AND KNC to raise Kurdistan flag so that no one will disagree as it is a recognised flag. Therefore, PKK and PYD are responsible for breaching the agreement. What is so hard to follow the right instructions from South Kurdistan? KRG has experience of 21 years.

Everything is going very well and smooth right now in Western Kurdistan. The PYD and KNC SHOULD NOT RAISE ANY FLAG OTHER THAN KURDISTAN FLAG, OTHERWISE WE WILL NOT ACHIEVE ANYTHING.

PYD = PKK , they do not recognize kurdistan flag (soccerboy) and they refused it at Kurdistan youth conference as well in Hawler .

i dont see KNC wave its party flag, its only PYD that is doing so, which is concerning , the last thing we want is FSA and turkish fascist army attack WK which they can.

therefore PYD must remove all of its party flag and use the kurdistan flag only which is the official flag at the moment , but they are doing things their own way, kurdistano are you blind or you just love looking away ?? i have read 10 complaints on Rudaw from KNC members in WK about PYD doing things without getting back to the supreme committee i.e. the using of PYD flag everywhere is a clear breach of Erbil agreement, there is not need for shooting in the dark , we all have eyes .

so it is simple, get rid of PYD party flag in WK for now , use kurdistan flag only till the entity is established , then they can use what ever flag they want, but for now , according to the Erbil agreement and the sensitive situation of WK, PYD must abide by the rules or a civil war might just break out.

pkk wants a role in WK ? that is fine with me but do it under kurdistan flag not a "party flag" .

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Exactly, the turks and arabs will find excuses and will try to strike west kurdistan just because of simple mistakes that we are doing right now.

Kak Masoud urged the PYD AND KNC to raise Kurdistan flag so that no one will disagree as it is a recognised flag. Therefore, PKK and PYD are responsible for breaching the agreement. What is so hard to follow the right instructions from South Kurdistan? KRG has experience of 21 years.

Everything is going very well and smooth right now in Western Kurdistan. The PYD and KNC SHOULD NOT RAISE ANY FLAG OTHER THAN KURDISTAN FLAG, OTHERWISE WE WILL NOT ACHIEVE ANYTHING.

Yet again you talk about the flag like little childs discussing about toys. Is there nothing more important to discuss for you, like developments in West Kurdistan, than about FLAGS??

Even though I also think they should raise only the Kurdistan flag. Did I miss something or why havent I seen any sources confirming that they agreed on only using the Kurdistan flag?

PYD did already distance from PKK. If Turkey really could interfere they would have found a reason to do so believe me even without PYD raising their own flag. Or is Barzani raising PKK flag the reason why Turkey permanently makes operations in South Kurdistan? They Turkey simply cant move in because this would mean interfering from outside and Russia, China wouldnt be happy about that.