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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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David McDowall

The Kurds of Syria

KHRP


Kurdish Human Rights Project
The Kurds of Syria
David McDowall

Kurdish Human Rights Project
December 1998

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KHRP gratefully acknowledges the financial support of NOVIB
(Netherlands Organisation for International
Development Cooperation), without which this report
could not have been produced.

Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP)
The Kurdish Human Rights Project is an independent non-political
project founded and based in Britain. The KHRP is a registered
charity. It is committed to the protection of the human rights of all
persons within the Kurdish areas, irrespective of race, religion, sex,
political persuasion or other beliefs or opinion. Its supporters include
both Kurdish and non-Kurdish people.

Novib (Netherlands Organisation for
International Development Cooperation)
Novib strives for sustainable development by supporting initiatives of
poor people in the South and by making their voice heard in the
North. Novib tries to reach this objective on the basis of three
related approaches: by structurally fighting poverty in the South
together with its partners in Africa, Asia and Latin America; by
providing better information to the Dutch public; and by promoting
the interests of the poor in northern decision-making bodies.

This report has been commissioned and is published by KHRP as a
contribution to public understanding of the issue which forms its
subject. The text and views of the individual author does not
necessarily represent, in every detail and in all its aspects, the
collective view of KHRP.

ISBN: 1 900175 23 1

Published by the Kurdish Human Rights Project, London.
Copyright ® Kurdish Human Rights Project, 1998.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
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