PYD announces constitution for Kurdish regions

22-7-2013 – Kurdpress – The pro-Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) announced on Sunday articles of its constitution for Syria Kurdish regions, after seizing control of most of the regions.

Released in Arabic, the constitution called Syria a dependent country with a democratic parliament federal system and “Western Kurdistan,” with Qamishlo as its capital, is a part of the country. Kurdish and Arabic are the official languages of Kurds- controlled autonomous regions and self-ruling units will protect Syrian borders against foreign intervention.

The Kurdish autonomous region will make its internal decision and would be self-ruling. The autonomous government would be run by a man or a woman with 21 ministers appointed by the parliament. Interior, Finance, Judiciary, Tourism and Environment, Human’s Right, Culture, Electricity and Defense are some of the ministries of the region.The release of the constitution was, however, blamed by some Kurdish officials including PYD leader Salih Muslim who told Kurdpress that the release was hasty as all situations and outlooks had to be considered.  Also talking to Kurdpress a PYD official said the release of the constitution text was not on time, adding that there would be changes in the text.