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| Syrian Kurdish groups, allies say approve blueprint for federal system |
| 2016-12-30 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian Kurdish groups and their allies said on Thursday they approved a blueprint for a system of federal government in northern Syria, reaffirming their plans for autonomy in areas they have controlled during the civil war. The blueprint amounts to a constitution, known as the social contract, an official told Rooters this week. It aims to cement the autonomy of areas of northern Syria where Kurdish groups have already carved out self-governing regions since the start of the war in 2011, though Kurdish leaders say an independent state is not the goal. "The social contract draft was ratified," Mansour al-Salloum, joint head of the Founding Council of the Federal System, told Rooters in Rmeilan in northeast Syria. "The executive committee will prepare for elections" first to regional administrations and later to a central body, he said, without giving a date for the votes. Salloum said that for areas currently outside the control of the Kurds and their allies, such as Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... -held Raqqa, the local population would ultimately decide whether they wanted to be part of the federal system. Separate forces are fighting against IS Death Eaters around Raqqa including the Kurdish YPG and its allies backed by the United States, and the Syrian army backed by Russian air strikes. Turkish-backed rebels are fighting the jihadist group further northwest. Syrian Kurdish groups and their allies have made their moves towards regional autonomy in the absence of any international deal for a political settlement to the nearly six-year Syrian war. Syrian Kurdistan drops Rojava word in its draft constitution [RUDAW.NET] The founding members of the self-declared Kurdish enclave in northern Syria have dropped the word Rojava -- a Kurdish word for Western Kurdistan -- from the official name of the federation of northern Syria. The ruling Democratic Union Party (PYD), which is the main group in Syria’s Kurdistan and rules over an area also known as Rojava, and a number of other parties in northern Syria have discussed the draft constitution of the federation for the second day on Wednesday in a meeting held in the Kurdish city of Rmelan, the Kurdish Hawar News Agency reported. The official name, which received the majority of the votes, is the Democratic Federal System of Northern Syria. Rojava officials are saying that it is a move to include other ethnic and religious components in northern Syria. Kurdish authorities declared in mid-March the Democratic Federal System of Rojava-Northern Syria, a federal entity within Syria which was declared unlawful by the Syrian regime. The federation includes three predominantly Kurdish territories, namely the cantons of Kobane, Cizre, and Afrin. |
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