Category Archives: PYD

‘Western Kurdistan could be a model for a free and democratic Syria’, PYD co-president tells London audience

Press Release Salih Muslim, co-president of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) addressed a well-attended seminar entitled The Kurds and the conflict in Syria at the London School of Economics last Friday.[1] The LSE Middle East Centre hosted the seminar, which was chaired the Centre’s manager, Robert Lowe. Providing an overview of the latest…

‘We decided to be soldiers for our people, not anyone else’: PYD leader

KT News: In a keynote speech at a Kurdish conference in London today, Salih Muslim Mohammed, leader of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), explained his party’s strategy for West Kurdistan and refuted claims that Kurds are aligned to Syria’s brutal Ba’athist regime. “We have the historical experience of Kurds being soldiers for others”, said Salih,…

PKK policies in Syria

By Kamal Chomani: “A Kurdish youth kissed my hands when he saw pictures of Murat Karayilan in my camera,” a photojournalist told me in Hawler last week. We’d last met, two years ago, with the PKK’s acting leader Murat Karayilan in the Qandil Mountains. The photojournalist had recently been to Kurdistan of Syria.  The next…