Kurdish deadly sin … The door is open for returning back

Written by Nasser Kandil,

When we talk about the Kurdish situation in Syria we do not talk about the comprehensive Kurdish issue as some of the Western researchers or Kurdish politicians want, because any follower of the historic compositions of the demographic population in the countries of the Middle East can distinguish between the state of the Kurds in Iraq and Turkey and their state in Iran and Syria. The denial of the presence of Kurdish issue in Syria as the size of the national issue which justifies the talk about federalism and confederation, or separation does not mean its denial absolutely, especially in respect of the Kurds of Iraq and Turkey, moreover, the justification of the right of search does not mean the advocating of the conclusion, which means the federalism, confederation, or the separation in particular. So from the position of the concern of the Kurds’ interest in the region, as the concern of the cohesion of its entities against the western projects which were and still try to temper in the structure of its compositions, and try to create contact lines between them to resort to in order to make strives, claiming supporting some of them once and the other once, the participatory democracy country is still the solution through the identity of the dual nationalism for each of Iraq and Turkey, and the Iraqi joining to the Arab group in addition to the old Iraqi position are not disabled by the admission of the duality of nationalism in the country which its majority is from the Arabs and because the original identity of Iraq was and still Arab. But although it is Arab but it admits of the privacy of its composition which based on respecting the partnership with the Kurdish component and its private culture, as well as the political economic and developmental rights of  its sons which are equal to every Arab citizen. In Turkey the aspect of the duality of the nationalism does not disable the centralization of the country or its partnership. Furthermore the admission of the national Kurdish rights or the rights of the full citizenship do not do badly to the Turks, because these rights allow an integration in the democratic partisan Turkish life and bear the arrival of any Kurdish political to the presidency of the country or the government or the parliament as in Iraq, but not on the basis of sharing the powers, but on the basis of the full rights of the citizenship and participatory base.

Surely it is a Kurdish issue in Iraq and Turkey, because there is separated historic geography of the Kurdish nationalism, despite all the history of the Kurdish partnership in the fate of the region including the spirit of integration and sharing, which based originally on the Kurdish historic awareness of the historic interest of the Kurdish group which based on the size of troubles, difficulties and the complexities of the living of the Kurdish independent state, without watery outlet, and under the wars of division of the countries of the region, in addition to bringing the enmities from the Arabs, Turks and the Iranians, under the intergradations of interests, housing, and the geographical spread in the depth of these entities. While in Syria and Iran there is not a Kurdish issue of such a kind, because the geography in which the Kurds live is not a part of geography in which the Kurds lived throughout the history. It is the geography of the Kurdish immigrants to the areas of warmth and fertility, to the shelters of persecution especially from Turkey. All those who traced the origins of the Kurdish families in Syria, will see their recent history of immigration and their belonging to origins that descended from the Turkish Kurdish families in a way that makes them closer to the situation of Armenians in Syria and Iran, despite the confusion of the presence of some of their deployment near the geography of the Kurdish presence in Turkey and Iraq. It is a normal thing within the neighboring of the geography of origin and the geography of displacement, as it is normal today the concentration of the Syrian immigrants to Lebanon in Bekaa and the immigrants to southern of Turkey and to the northern of Jordan. This does not mean that the Kurds who have Kurdish identity in Syria have not rights that are added to the right of citizenship or the same for the Armenians, but the origin is the that they are Syrian Kurds and not Kurdish Syrians otherwise they became Kurdish Turks in Syria. The Syrian Kurds are required to publicize their sticking to the Syrian Arab identity and their happy acceptance of being affiliated under its banner, within the state of the civil citizenship which grants them all the rights of the citizenship in addition to cultural rights that keep their privacy as a group.

The Kurds in Syria have succeeded from escaping from the dominance of the leadership of Massoud Barazani, but they have not succeeded in avoiding the traps which the West has laid for them by the temptations of adoption and support in order to fall in the trap of turning into American militia even they want or no. Despite all the sponsoring which they have received from Russia and from the understanding which Moscow presented for their rights and for playing the role of mediation to enlist them in the negotiations’ delegations in Geneva, and despite what Washington has done against them when ISIS attacked Ain Al Arab, and when it prevented them from the military support until they accepted to swear allegiance to Barazani as a leader for the Kurds in Syria. This was the original sin; this does not mean that the successive Syrian governments before the crisis and the war have done what is necessary to them. The issue of the nationality which the Syrian President has promised repeatedly of solving its dilemma for them has met the procrastination and the prevarication of many Syrian leadership institutions till the eruption of the crisis. So this accompanied with the abandonment and marginalization have contributed in supporting the anti Syrian forces with angry sect that is easy to be manipulated in its feelings and its positions, as the case of the rural areas which were deprived of the necessary support of fuels for the bombers of water in the phase of drying, so its people left the agriculture and the countryside, and from which the slum cities have constituted on which the riots based, but neither this nor that allows giving the sufferings of the oppressed to the enemy which non of Syrian compass misses the recognition, that it is America, its policies, and its machination.

The Americans have succeeded in tempting the tendencies of some of the Kurdish leaderships to establish Kurdish entity on a part of the Syrian geography, after the Americans failed in having control over all Syria, the situation of this entity is as the emirate of Al Nusra front in the northern of Syria and a security belt on Golan borders that protects the occupation of the cobweb army in order to prevent the transition of the deterrence equations which the resistance formed in the southern of Lebanon to the Southern of Syria. There were Syrian Kurdish leaderships which emerged talking about approaching the dream, they know that the having Kurdish related geography means ethnic cleansings or an announcement of Kurdish entity in geography most of which is Arab which means an occupation, as the situation of announcing compulsory federalism from one part without accepting the partner which represents the majority and which the federalism cannot be settled without a compromise with it  This makes the dream subject to the size of the American support on one hand, and this has increased the degree of the dependence to Washington and its ability to use the Kurdish militias voluntarily, and this has ignited the Syrian nationalism toward this dangerous deviation on the other hand. The management of the relationship with it remained subject to the ebb and flow by measuring the steps which it requires, the presence of the Kurdish militias in the battles against ISIS, or their incursion in the Arab background to practice the power or the ethnic cleansing. It is not a secret that the Turkish concern about the emergence of Kurdish entity on the borders after the failure in overthrowing Syria has become the winning card of Syria to impose the Turkish turn that directs the importance of the most important country in the war on Syria from one bank to another, and that Syria accompanied with Russia and Iran are aware that the needed is the return of the Syrian Kurds to their normal position as partners in the war on terrorism and in building new Syria that is ruled by the citizenship, and where the Kurds obtain their rights which achieve their citizenship but in return they have to do their tasks which it dedicated in order to have accordingly the rights of privacy.

What is going on in Hasaka is an opportunity for a dialogue that is based on the force which prevents the separation game, but opens the door of the partnership on the basis of that the sin is prevented by force, and that the partnership is a door that is opened by the rapprochement.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,