Syria’s interim parliament, sworn in earlier this week after President Ahmed al-Sharaa appointed its last 70 members, contains no representatives from the organization that led Kurdish efforts in the country’s long civil war. Members of the left-wing Democratic Union Party (PYD), long the dominant political force among Syria’s Kurds, are conspicuously missing from those appointed … Continue reading What Sharaa’s Pivot to the Kurdish National Council Means for Syria’s Kurds
By choosing the Kurdish National Council as the only Kurdish bloc in parliament, the president has boxed out the long-dominant political-military force behind his country’s biggest ethnic minority.