As Kurdish forces withdraw from the city of Manbij, which will be taken over by joint US and Turkish forces, the Kurdish YPG and its allies are exploring talks with the Assad government, saying they believe the time is right to start a dialogue.
The YPG controls a territory they refer to as Rojava, a Kurdish autonomous region which encompasses a large portion of Syria. They say the goal of the talks with Syria’s central government is to end the conflict, and secure Rojava’s future as an autonomous region within Syria.
This has been their plan all along, but the Manbij situation suggests the US may be shifting away from the Kurds and toward Turkey, and that may mean the YPG needs a new ally to secure their position, particularly with Turkey saying they intend to take all the Kurdish territory in northern Syria.
Getting recognition for Rojava is likely to mean some concessions, likely the Kurds giving some of the non-Kurdish territory to the central government. The US has, despite supporting the YPG in the war, long expressed opposition to autonomous regions within Syria, saying they want a heavily centralized state.
“The US has, despite supporting the YPG in the war, long expressed
opposition to autonomous regions within Syria, saying they want a
heavily centralized state.”
Of course this is what they want, the partition of Syria to steal the oil resources in the East of the countrym and to please Israel which clandestinely follows the Oded Yinon Plan of Balkanization of arab neighbour states since the 1980th.
Dialogue is certainly a good idea but autonomous region my foot. Prior to 2011, the Kurds weren’t having this much problem as they do now. It’s the price you pay when you let Uncle Warbucks make you fantasy promises.
Good news. I have been hoping that the Syrian Kurds would start talking to Syrians.
Kurds should get at least an autonomy or even confederated status.
Thus no war against the Kurds.
the syrian gov’t will never accept an autonomous zone for the kurds. they have already betrayed syria a number of times, so I have no idea why the central gov’t would even talk to them (again), at this point, but of course they will and the central gov’t will wring it out of the kurds, the traitors
like Barzani the kurds really have no cards in their hand, and now the US is again changing sides, so it would appear
Smart move. Assad’s a creep but Uncle Same is creepier. Stick with the devil you know.