Loading ...Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria are expected to declare a federal system imminently, Kurdish officials said on Wednesday, taking matters into their own hands after being excluded from talks in Geneva to resolve Syria’s civil war.
The step aims to combine three Kurdish-led autonomous areas of northern Syrian into a federal arrangement and will be sure to alarm neighboring Turkey, which fears a growing Kurdish sway in Syria is fuelling separatism among its own minority Kurds.
A conference in the Kurdish-controlled town of Rmeilan on Wednesday was discussing a “Democratic Federal System for Rojava – Northern Syria”. Rojava is the Kurdish name for northern Syria.
Conference participants also forecast a failure of U.N.-led talks which began in Geneva this week, in the absence of the Syrian Kurdish PYD party.
Aldar Khalil, a Kurdish official and one of the organizers, told Reuters he anticipated the approval of a new system, and “democratic federalism” was the best one. Idris Nassan, another Kurdish official, expected a declaration of federalism.
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