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[Patrick Mac Manus's Blog] Can the Kurds tip the scales in Syria? « Patrick Mac Manus's Blog: But the reluctance of Kurds, yet, to throw their full weight behind the protest movement can also be explained by the regime’s apparently successful combination of swift but minor concessions made against the backdrop of years of increased repression, a dark harbinger of what might lie ahead should the national uprising fail to topple the existing power.

[Iraqi Dinar News] * Kurdish parties in Syria throw weight behind protests | Iraqi ...: 07/06/2011 19:33 Erbil, June 7 (AKnews) - Three Kurdish political parties in Syria have officially backed the protests that have seen thousands take to the streets to oust president Assad.

[Dinar Daddy's Tidbits] Kurdish parties in Syria throw weight behind protests | Dinar ...: The Kurds have played an important role in the protests that have rocked the country since March, with many Kurdish populated cities seeing major unrest. This is nothing new for the community that has been fighting for ethnic rights for decades.

[Care2 News Network] Can the Kurds tip the scales in Syria? - Care2 News Network: Noted Thanks Cal The Kurds have long been the most persecuted ethnic group in the middle east.We can well understand their deiire for equal rights in the whole region,but will they become more targets for Assad's butchers if they join the demonstrators.That brutal bastard has no qualms about killing thousands to keep his hold on the country.He knows only too well what will happen to him and the members of the Baarth if ever he loses our relinquishes power.

[Zawya.com - Iraq News] Kurdish parties in Syria throw weight behind protests - Money - Zawya: Three Kurdish political parties in Syria have officially backed the protests that have seen thousands take to the streets to oust president Assad.

[Support Kurds in Syria] Thursday 9 June 2011 : Support Kurds in Syria: Allowing Syrians to cross the border, but not to speak, appears to be an extension of a delicate balancing act as Ankara tries to please the west by discharging its humanitarian obligations, while appeasing Damascus by trying to prevent the scrutiny it fears.

[Roj Bash Kurdistan] Roj Bash Kurdistan • View topic - Syrian Kurdish Parties Boycott ...: Ribal al-Assad, the Director of the Organisation for Democracy and Freedom in Syria and cousin of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has criticised some of the 'Syrian opposition' involved in the proposed meeting for not being genuine representatives of the Syrian people and called for the 'evil agenda' of the conference to be 'exposed to the international community.' He says that '[a]ny meeting of the Syrian opposition must include a broad coalition of groups that genuinely believe in freedom, democracy, and religious pluralism.'

[KURDISTAN COMMENTARY] Kurdish Awakening in Syria « KURDISTAN COMMENTARY: The political group, in its first official statement since the uprising in Syria began more than two months ago, has outlined a comprehensive plan for democratic change and fundamental reform at all levels. The plan is an effort to end one-party rule and the monopoly of power, and to build a modern, civil state that would ensure justice and equality of rights and, ultimately, achieve a true partnership of all citizens in the management of affairs of the country.

[Patrick Mac Manus's Blog] Debate rages among Syria's opposition Kurds « Patrick Mac Manus's Blog: [...] Debate rages among Syria's opposition Kurds (via Patrick Mac Manus's Blog) Posted on May 9, 2011 by pragashpio For 24-year-old Azad, a poet and political activist from Amouda in northeast Syria, it was a single word, cried from streets at the other end of the country that cut through the tangle of ethnic and political division that has defined Kurdish identity in Syria for generations. "When people from Deraa shouted for freedom, not for pan-Arab unity, not for liberating Palestine or for unity with Egypt and Lebanon as in the past, it pushed young Kurds …

[William Bowles.info] Turkey's Not-So-Subtle Shift on Syria By M K Bhadrakumar « William ...:  The only discord was that it couldn’t make up its mind whether a future Syria should remain secular.  The participants upheld the principles of Syria’s territorial integrity and rejected foreign military intervention but, significantly, invited international organizations to work toward ending the bloodshed in their country.

[Patrick Mac Manus's Blog] Turkey: Kurds Boycott Mosques for Language Rights « Patrick Mac ...: Akar argues that while the fight for Kurdish rights was dominated in the 1980s and 1990s by the PKK’s Marxist ideology, a profound change has since occurred. Religious movements are now championing the Kurdish campaign for expanded rights, he notes.

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