An agreement under pressure from the United States, a reliable source described the announcement made a few days ago between the autonomous administration of northern Syria and the Kurdish National Council. The statement stated that ”the Duhok Agreement (2014) will serve as the basis for the continuation of the ongoing dialogue between the two delegations with a view to reaching a comprehensive agreement in the near future.” The three cantons of Rojava (literally Western Curdistan) declared their autonomy in January 2014. Cizre is the largest canton of Rojava, Kobane the second largest and Afrin the smallest. These three cantons are not geographically coherent, but are enclaves between Turkey, the jihadists of Daesh and other extremist Islamic organizations and the forces of the Assad regime. The canton of Cizre also borders Iraq to the east. The Democratic Union Party (PYD), a left-wing political unit with close ideological and political ties to the Kurdistan Workers` Party (PKK), the party that has been fighting Ankara since the 1980s and which has become the main centre of the Kurdish political movement in Turkey, has political power in the three cantons of Rojava. Kobane, December 2014. Demotix/Jonathan Raa. All rights reserved. We all help in one way or another, one fights on the front line, the other translates texts.
But we are free to organize or not in the Tev-Dem, there is no obligation and there is no social pressure to be part of it ”, Judy told me, while we ate candy in a tiny pastry shop. The Dohuk agreement provides for the creation of a Kurdish political bloc where the representation of the democratic movement of society is 40%, while the Kurdish National Council is also 40%, while other Kurdish parties and forces that do not participate in the two political forums will have 20%. On 16 June, the two sides announced in a joint statement that they were forming the Kurdish political bloc and will unite the Kurdish armed militias in Jazeera, Syria. The agreement was reached in accordance with the Duhok agreement signed in 2014 between the Kurdish parties. The analyst believes that what is enshrined in the agreement does not correspond to the concept of national unity and creates unilateral national control that paves the way for secession, according to the Baladi News network. Kurdish YPG forces on the front line, December 2014. Demotix/Jonathan Rea.All rights reserved. We believe in a better society. A society that we can build and in which all the different nationalities of Rojava will coexist.
