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The Kurds of Syria


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Éditeur : KHRP Date & Lieu : 1998, London
Préface : Pages : 90
Traduction : ISBN : 1 900175 23 1
Langue : AnglaisFormat : 145x210 mm
Code FIKP : Br. Eng. Mac. Kur. N°2287Thème : Général

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The Kurds of Syria

The Kurds of Syria

David McDowall

KHRP


The Syrian claim
'Syrian society is distinguished from all other societies in the world by its tolerance and lack of bigotry.... The phenomenon of racial discrimination is unknown in our history and totally alien to our society.'
(Syrian Government statement)

The Syrian reality
Syria discriminates against its Kurdish minority:
- it is ethnically exclusive, its constitution being based solely on Arab identity even though 15 per cent of the country is non-Arab
- it withholds citizenship from up to 200,000 Kurds who have lived all their lives inside Syria
- it forbids the teaching of the Kurdish language, even privately
- it forbids the production of Kurdish language publications
- it discriminates against Kurds in education and employment opportunities

The Kurds of Syria
- provides an account of Kurdish-Arab relations in Syria during the twentieth century
- describes the current situation of the approximately 1.5 million Kurds of Syria
- describes Syria's discriminatory practices
- explains how these violate international law and in some cases its own domestic law
- recommends the steps necessary for Syria to conform with international law and norms

- With an appendix on the Kurds in Lebanon
This report is produced by the Kurdish Human Rights Project thanks to a generous grant from NOVIB (Netherlands Organization for International Development Cooperation)



David McDowall is a writer and specialist in Middle East affairs with a particular interest in minorities. He is the author of A Modern History of the Kurds (IB Tauris, 1996)

 


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Contents


Foreword / i
Author's Acknowledgement / iii
Map 1: Distribution of the Kurds / iv
Map 2: Sketch map of northern Syria / v

Chapter One: Introduction / 1

Chapter Two: Kurds and Arabs: differing aspirations, 1900 -1946
(a) Damascus and the politics of notables / 5
(b) The Jazira, 1920-1946 / 9

Chapter Three: Syrian independence and the triumph of Arab nationalism / 15

Chapter Four: Dealing with the Jazira / 21

Chapter Five: Confining the Kurds of Afrin / 29

Chapter Six: Human, civil and political rights / 33

Chapter Seven: Discrimination against the Kurdish people
(a) The Constitution and International Law / 35
(b) The State of Emergency / 37
(c) The Citizenship Issue
(i) Resident foreigners / 38
(ii) Unregistered foreigners / 41
(iii) Syrian practice and international law / 41
(d) The Suppression of cultural identity
(i) Suppression of the language 47
(ii) Suppression of place names 48
(iii) Refusal to register children with Kurdish names / 49
(iv) Prohibition of businesses with non-Arabic names / 50
(v) Prohibition of books and other materials in Kurdish / 50
(vi) Celebration of Nawruz / 50

Chapter Eight: Employment Opportunities
(a) / Government service
(i) Compulsory and voluntary military service / 53
(ii) Public sector employment / 55
(b) Private sector employment / 56

Chapter Nine: Political activity
(a) The legitimate forum / 57
(b) Liberalisation / 59
(c) Kurdish political parties / 59

Chapter Ten: The PKK / 65

Chapter Eleven: Syria, the Kurds and regional relations / 69

Chapter Twelve: Internal security: Syria and its Kurds / 71

Chapter Thirteen: Conclusion / 75

Chapter Fourteen: Recommendations / 77

Appendix: / The Kurds in Lebanon / 79

Bibliography / 87




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