Syria Spotlight: “Superior Funding, Resources Helping ISIS Pose Threat To ‘Moderates’ Near Turkey Border”
13-11-2013 – Joanna Paraszczuk Joanna Paraszczuk is EA WorldView’s Managing Editor.
A source who has traveled recently along the Syria-Turkey border region has told EA that the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham is increasingly posing a threat to the moderate insurgency in the area, mostly because of the Islamist faction’s ability to attract and mobilize foreign funding and resources. The source, who is an Arabic speaker, and who spoke to EA on condition of anonymity, says that he recently spent time in the town of Jarablus near the Turkey border.
Syrian Kurdish Party declares transitional government / Wladimir van Wilgenburg
The KDP-S fears they cannot make any electoral gains in a system controlled by PYD militias, although the PYD says international observers would be observing any elections in the future.
AL MONITOR – 13-11-2013 – The Democratic Union Party (PYD), affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), on Monday, Nov. 11, announced from the unofficial Syrian Kurdish capital of Qamishli that it would form an interim transitional administration, despite objections from Turkey.
Recapitalising the Syrian Banking System: Costs & Challenges
by Andrew Cunningham with Darien Middle East
It is hard to think about reconstructing Syria and its economy at a time when there is so much uncertainty about how the civil war will develop in the months ahead, but, as the fiasco of Iraqi “reconstruction” in the months following the overthrow of Saddam Husain has shown, failure to plan for the days when the conflict has ended will not only delay the process of reconstruction but may also lead to a continuation of bloodshed and violence.
DISCUSSING THE KURDISH FACTOR
Event Broadcast Advance Notice: The Kurdish Crescent: New Trends in Syria, Turkey, Iraq, & Iran – Featuring – Michael Knights & David Pollock
Thursday, November 14, 2013 – Live event broadcast on our website – Estimated time 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM (ET) – Add this to your calendar
THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER : ERSCHÜTTERNDE BRITISCH –DEUTSCHE SYRIEN REPORTAGE IM ARD TV
http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/reportage-dokumentation/syriens-kinder?documentId=18068046
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA) : Declaration of transitional administration in Qamishli
Declaration of a transitional administration is a step towards an autonomous region i northern parts of Syria. A local parliament w 82 members to be established, furthermore there will be 3 “Kantons”, Jazeera, Kobanê &Afrin w their own assemblies. Transitional administration according PYD project created after meeting in Qamislo w Kurds, Arabs, Christian& Chechens. More details will be released soon. On Thursday, a meeting of the Supreme Kurdish Council will be held (earlier they held a meeting after holding no meetings for six months), and most likely the KNC is involved in the project (8 parties of KNC).
Info/Translation via https://twitter.com/ArjDnn and @barzaniso.
Sources: http://www.hawarnews.com/kurdi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5782:reveberiya-demi-ya-rojava-hate-ilankirin-flash&catid=39:manet (Kurdish)
http://hawarnews.com/index.php/component/content/article/43-2013-02-24-21-16-12/7813-2013-11-12-12-14-04 (Arabic)
OFFICIAL STATEMENT : Syrian Coalition accepts peace talks & says Assad must go
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Why Isn’t Washington Talking Directly With Syrian Kurds?
By Armando Cordoba – RUDAW – 12.11.2013 – ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The United States claims it is actively “in touch” with Syrian Kurdish political parties, yet it passed up an unprecedented opportunity for direct talks with Salih Muslim, the leader of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria. “My friend and colleague of many years Ambassador Robert Ford (U.S. Ambassador to Syria), other colleagues who work from here in Turkey in particular, and also around the world, are in touch with a wide variety of Syrian oppositionists including many Kurds,” US Ambassador to Turkey, Francis Ricciardone, told a press briefing in Ankara recently. He also added that Turkey has had a dialogue with many Kurds in Syria “quite openly,” and subsequently the US government is “in touch with some of the factions from there.”
Number of Kurds in Syria opposition council increased to 11
12-11-2013 – Kurdpress – 8 more Syrian Kurdish politicians were allowed in country’s opposition body, increasing the number of the Kurds in the body to 11 persons.
Old column: Syria & PKK Peace Process Old column not published by Rudaw in English
Since the ongoing talks between PKK-leader Abdullah Öcalan and the Turkish state most experts have focused on the statements of the PKK and the AKP to assess the peace process and a possible solution to the Kurdish problem in Turkey. But it might be better to look to Syria and the PYD after the events in Aleppo and Qamishli to see if there is a strategic shift in PKK policies.
I am not a fan of conspiracy theories, but the recent fighting in which the YPG claimed to have killed 40 Syrian soldiers and the continuous bombing of the PYD-controlled districts of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiya in Aleppo since 29 March and the killing of 3 YPG fighters by Syrian soldiers in Qamishli could be a sign the Imrali-process (the talks between the PKK and Turkey) is affecting the neutrality of the PKK in Syria and the Assad government is trying to punish the PYD. Although it did not lead to a major conflict in Qamishli yet and there was fighting in the areas before.
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