Kurdish Future Movement in Syria
Kurdish Future Movement in Syria Şepêla Pêşeroj a Kurdî li Sûriyê | ||
|---|---|---|
People's Council | 0 / 250
| |
Politics of Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria |
|---|
 |
The Kurdish Future Movement in Syria (
Party history
Founding years and the Syrian Civil War
The Kurdish Future Movement was founded on 29 May 2005 by Syrian Kurdish politician
In August 2008, Tammo was arrested and charged with "committing aggression and arming Syrians to start civil war," a charge he denied.
The Kurdish Future Movement has strong relations with Kurdish youth groups and has been actively involved in dissident demonstrations and protests since the beginning of the uprising. In fact, members of the Kurdish opposition have accused the Kurdish Future Movement of focusing excessively on the revolution, while failing to uphold and defend Kurdish interests.
In contrast to the majority of Kurdish parties in Syria, the Kurdish Future Movement does not see the Kurdish question as a regional matter. It doesn't call for Kurdish self-determination but for full participation in the new government based on proportional representation, and it demands recognition of the Kurdish people as a main, rather than second, ethnicity in Syria.[citation needed]
Party split after Tammo's assassination
Having survived a first assassination attempt in August, Mashaal Tammo was however killed on a second attempt November 11 in Qamishli.[2] Rezan Bahri Shaykhmus, chairman of the party's Office of General Communications, blamed the Syrian intelligence services having killed founding leader Tammo,[5] and indeed in October 2012, TV network Al Arabiya published leaked files indicating that Tammo was assassinated by the Air Force Intelligence Directorate and upon presidential order by Bashar al-Assad.[6]
Since Tammo's death, the Kurdish Future Movement suffered from internal leadership battles.[7] On July 6, 2012, the party split in two when some twenty people convening a general assembly in Qamishli declared the chairman Rezan Bahri Shaykhmus to be deposed and replaced him with the successor Jangidar Muhammad. As Shaykhmus' supporters didn't recognize the elections, there are currently two parties known as the Kurdish Future Movement in Syria.[8]
On its October 17 to 19, 2014 congress in
Rasheed Muhammad, a member of the Future Movement, was also a member of the
References
- New York Times. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ ISBN 978-605-4615-23-0.
- Ekurd.net. 1 September 2008. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ISBN 978-1-137-44554-4.
- ^ "Interview with Rezan Bahri Shaykhmus". KurdWatch. 19 January 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ "Assad ordered killing of Kurdish activist Mashaal Tammo: Leaked files". 10 October 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ISBN 978-1-4833-7157-3.
- ^ Al-Qamishli: Future Movement splits
- ^ Istanbul: Future Movement founds military wing
- ^ "Member of the Kurdish Future Movement arrested by Kurdish Self-management forces in al Darbasiya city in Hasaka governorate on April 1". Syrian Network for Human Rights. 1 April 2017.
