{"id":113,"date":"2025-04-10T19:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swedishpost.org\/?p=113"},"modified":"2025-04-10T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T17:51:00","slug":"the-kurds-demand-autonomy-in-the-new-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swedishpost.org\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"The Kurds demand autonomy in the new Syria."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swedishpost.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-42.png?w=1010\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Support for a federal system has grown, especially after last month\u2019s massacres of more than 800 Alawite civilians, which have raised concerns among the country\u2019s minority groups. Several Kurdish groups are now accusing Syria\u2019s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, and his Islamist government of taking the country in the wrong direction and trying to seize power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rival Kurdish parties have set aside their differences and agreed on a common political stance \u2014 with regional autonomy at its core. The plan has not yet been made public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swedishpost.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-41.png?w=520\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-114\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During the 14-year-long civil war, Kurdish-led forces took control of roughly a quarter of Syria. Three months after the fall of the Assad regime, the Kurdish militia SDF signed an agreement with the new central authority \u2014 Kurdish civil and military institutions would be integrated into the state&#8217;s structure. The Kurdish groups support the agreement, but have also strongly criticized how Syria&#8217;s Islamist leadership is handling the transition from Bashar al-Assad\u2019s dictatorship. They argue that promises of diversity and inclusion are not being fulfilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Badran Jia Kurd, a senior representative of the Kurdish-led administration, told Reuters that all Kurdish groups have now united around a \u201ccommon political vision\u201d that emphasizes the need for \u201ca federal, pluralistic, and democratic parliamentary system.\u201d This is the first time a representative has openly confirmed the desire to implement a federal political system since the agreement was signed with the regime in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President al-Sharaa has opposed a federal system and stated in an interview with <em>The Economist<\/em> in January that it lacks popular support and is not in Syria\u2019s interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support for a federal system in Syria has increased following recent massacres of Alawite civilians, prompting Kurdish groups to unite against the interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa. They demand regional autonomy and criticize the Islamist leadership for failing to deliver on promises of diversity and inclusion, seeking a pluralistic parliamentary system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swedishpost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swedishpost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swedishpost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swedishpost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swedishpost.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swedishpost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swedishpost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swedishpost.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swedishpost.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swedishpost.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}