Syria's most powerful Kurdish group on Friday unveiled plans for self-government in the regions it controls until the end of Syria's civil war, a move likely to alarm both neighbouring Turkey and Syrian rebels, both wary of a possible Kurdish state.
A Syrian Kurdish group said on Friday it aims to set up an independent council to run Kurdish regions until Syria’s civil war has ended, a move likely to alarm Syrian rebels and neighbouring Turkey, both wary of a possible Kurdish state.Kurdish militias have seized control of districts in northern Syria in the past year since President Bashar al-Assad’s forces focused elsewhere, and are now seeking to consolidate those gains despite deep divisions in their ranks.Syria’s two-year conflict has pitted the Kurds against Assad’s forces at times, and against the rebels seeking to oust him at others.
Divided between Iran, Turkey, Iraq and Syria, the Kurdish people are often described as the largest ethnic group without a state of their own. Kurdish militants and the government in Turkey have begun peace talks to end a conflict in the country’s southeast that has claimed 40,000 lives.
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