Syria's Kurds call for a democratic state that protects their ethnic rights

QAMISHLI – Representatives of Kurdish groups successful Syria called Saturday for a antiauthoritarian authorities that gives the country’s Kurds their taste rights aft the autumn of Bashar Assad.

Some 400 radical representing Syria’s main Kurdish groups met successful the northeastern Syrian metropolis of Qamishli to unify their positions a period aft Syria’s caller rulers signed a breakthrough deal with Kurdish-led authorities successful the northeast.

Kurds successful Syria were marginalized during the 54-year Assad household rule, with galore denied citizenship and wrongly described arsenic Arabs. Since the autumn of Bashar Assad successful aboriginal December, Syria’s Kurds person been trying to support the taste gains they made successful the northeast enclave they carved retired during the country’s civilian war.

A connection issued astatine the extremity of the one-day gathering that was attended by groups including the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, the Democratic Union Party, oregon PYD, and the Kurdish National Council called for a “fair and comprehensive” solution for the Kurdish origin successful a “democratic and decentralized country.”

They said that the country’s constitution should “guarantee the nationalist rights of the Kurdish radical and abide by planetary laws for quality rights and women’s rights.” The connection said women should actively enactment successful authorities institutions successful Syria.

The groups besides called for post-Assad Syria to springiness adjacent rights to each its citizens “without marginalizing anyone.”

The gathering was attended by representatives of Kurdish groups from Turkey and Iraq.

Kurds made up 10% of the country’s prewar colonisation of 23 million. Kurdish officials person been saying that they don’t privation afloat autonomy with their ain authorities and parliament; they privation decentralization and country to tally their day-to-day affairs.

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