PRESS RELEASE On Wednesday, November 23, 2016, the correspondent of the independent radio station Welat FM, Sardar Dari, was found unconscious and severely injured in al-Khamael, about 20 kilometres from al-Hasakah. The previous evening, fighters of the YPG had abducted him from his internet coffee shop in the al-Mufti neighbourhood of al-Hasakah. He was brutally […]
Continue reading PYD consolidates its power and the world keeps silent: Attempted assassination of independent journalist and new detentions in Syrian KurdistanʿAmudah – Along the lines of Stalinism: PYD security forces shut down another radio and raid Yekîtî office
PRESS RELEASE 18 November 2016 Kurdish National Council in Syria – Geneva Office On Wednesday, November 16, 2016, in ʿAmudah employees of Asayiș, the security forces of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), stormed the premises of the radio station Amûdê FM and arrested four staff members, namely Noshin Ahmad, Ava Khano, Pesheng Khane and Sipan […]
Continue reading ʿAmudah – Along the lines of Stalinism: PYD security forces shut down another radio and raid Yekîtî officeLetter to the US President-elect, Mr. Donald Trump
Your Excellency, Mr. Donald Trump, Mr. President, on behalf of the Kurdish National Council in Syria we send you our warmest congratulations regarding your election as President of the United States of America. We highly appreciate the role of the United States in the war against terrorism and extremism. Your country has always defended the […]
Continue reading Letter to the US President-elect, Mr. Donald TrumpEuropean Representation of the KNC denounces attack by PKK affiliates against KNC rally in Stockholm
On Saturday, November 5 2016, the European Representation of the Kurdish National Council in Syria (KNC) organised a solidarity rally in Stockholm (Sweden) in solidarity of the abducted politicians and members of the KNC and of the political activists and journalists detained in PYD-controlled (before Assad-controlled) prisons. The European Representation denounced the dictatorial practices of […]
Continue reading European Representation of the KNC denounces attack by PKK affiliates against KNC rally in StockholmAgain KNC members abducted by PYD militias
On Friday, October 28, 2016, around 1 pm (local time), a group of hooded PYD members in a car abducted Mohamad Ameen Rashid, member of the local committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Syria (PDK-S), in front of the city bakery of al-Malikiyah (Dêrik). Later that day around 5 pm, Ahmad Shanke, another member […]
Continue reading Again KNC members abducted by PYD militiasBuilding Inclusive Peace in Syria – A Critical Appraisal of the Executive Framework for a Political Solution
Article by Prof. Dr. Eva Maria Belser and Dr. Soeren Keil As fighting has resumed in many parts of Syria, the optimism felt by many in mid-September when a cease fire ended most of the violence, has vanished. With American and Russian diplomats locking heads over the bombardment of government troops and a UN convoy […]
Continue reading Building Inclusive Peace in Syria – A Critical Appraisal of the Executive Framework for a Political SolutionPYD extends compulsory service and turns young Kurds into cannon fodder
PRESS RELEASE Kurdish National Council in Syria – Geneva Office 21 October 2016 PYD extends compulsory service and turns young Kurds into cannon fodder In June 2014, the Legislative Council for the Jazirah, appointed by the Democratic Union Party (PYD), passed a law on compulsory military service. The law provides that every family offers a […]
Continue reading PYD extends compulsory service and turns young Kurds into cannon fodderAppeal regarding the political detainees in PYD prisons
Since August, the PYD has detained dozens of activists, members and officials of the Kurdish National Council in Syria. The reason given is their participation in a funeral cortege of a Peshmerga who lost his life fighting against the Islamic State in Kurdistan Iraq. The PYD withholds all information regarding their whereabouts and their general […]
Continue reading Appeal regarding the political detainees in PYD prisonsMurderer sentenced to life imprisonment and his family expelled from the city
On October 5, the PYD-affiliated news agency ANHA (Hawar) reported about the decision taken by the “court of the people” of the Jazirah canton regarding the murder of twenty-five-year-old Falak Mohamad. On July 29, the young woman was assassinated by her husband Alan Mohamad, who is mentally fragile, right after they got married. According to […]
Continue reading Murderer sentenced to life imprisonment and his family expelled from the cityStatement regarding the terrorist attack in al-Hasakah
Kurdish National Council in Syria – Geneva Office 04 October 2016 In the evening of October 3, 2016, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a wedding of the Fatîme family in a predominantely Kurdish quarter of the city of al-Hasakah and killed at least 20 people. Another 70 were injured. Among the victims are […]
Continue reading Statement regarding the terrorist attack in al-Hasakah