Kurdsish views in Syria

The chairman of the Syrian democratic national coalition Muhammad Marwan al-Zarki has stated that this coalition attract the Kurds in Syria and has come as a result of an objective unity among themselves to alleviate the sufferings of the Syrian Kurds under certain extraordinary measures taken against them by the beginning of the 1960 s and its consequences still until now.

In a statement to the London ­ based al- Zamaan ( the Times) issues on February 10, al-Zarki added that this coalition came to express the habits and traditions of the Kurds and their culture, noting it does not contract with the concept of the Kurd's commitment to Syria and like other national parties rallied under the Syrian " National Progressive Front." He stressed that the Syrian Democratic National Coalition is a Syrian national and represents the Syrian Kurdish people, noting that the political leadership in Syria is seriously thinking of correcting certain conditions applied concerning the Kurds by the beginning of the 1960s.

In London, the al-Quds al-Arabi Arabic daily issued also on February 10 issued an article written by the Syrian lawyer Majida Bakdash ( who is a Kurd) who lives in Switzerland in which she stressed that depicting the conditions of Kurds in Syria in a gloomy way is a fabrication and mere lies.

The Syrian lawyers added replying to articles written by the al-Quds al-Arabi earlier about the conditions of the Kurds in Syria that the Kurds in Syria do not differ from other Syrians and they are existing in all parts of Syria and in all social strata; the poor and the rich and in all the state organs: in the army, the security and even in the leadership of the Baath Party and other Syrian parties.

She continued that the Syrian Kurds did not suffer any racist or social practices, where the Kurds, the Armenian, the Assyrians and the Arabs co-exist in a nationalist state of no racism nor hatred.

She explained that the question of Syria's Kurds does not differ from the problems of other Syrian social strata represented in the need for democracy and the freedom of expression.

She continued that the Syrian Kurds do not suffer any special problems with the Syrian authority, rather their real problem is in this " few among the extremist Kurds politicians whose job is confined to get the Kurds involved in the game of the Iraqi Kurds Movement.