Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during the post-Assad transition to keep the cultural gains they made in the northeast enclave they carved out during the country’s civil war.
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“We have made all these gains. There is no way we will abandon them, even over our bodies and the bodies of our children,” said Amira Ali, a Kurdish woman from the northeastern city of Hassakeh whose husband is a member of the local police force known as, “Asayish,” the Kurdish term for security.A tour through northeastern Syria in a moment of uncertainty
The new authorities, however, are allied with the Turkish-backed armed groups that launched an offensive against the Kurds in December during the chaos around Assad’s fall. The fighting between the Kurds and the coalition known as the Syrian National Army has forced about 100,000 people to flee their homes.
The SDF lost thousands of its members in fighting IS, as well as against the armed factions backed by Turkey.as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a Kurdish separatist militant group it has designated a terrorist organization. “I swear to God that displacement has killed us,” Abdu said, sitting on a mattress next to a diesel heater on a cold January morning. “What did we do to be punished this way?”“All what we have left is our souls. If they want to take it, then let them do it,” Horo said as she sat with her grandchildren on the floor of a classroom in Qamishli now used as a shelter for the displaced.
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