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Will guarantee better rights and economy for Syrians. Rn if you are a anti-PKK Kurds, like ENKS, you will get prosecuted, there is no real freedom of speech in SDF, Arabs get ethnically cleansed, etc. Integration guarantees that it will no longer see itself as hostile to Syria and Syrians will no longer hate SDF. This law that was signed is a step that shows Syria really is for all and not just a statement that was said ( as I said before STG never did much to assure Kurds they will have the same rights they get in SDF). No integration basically means war.

There are hardliners on both sides who are skeptical of the integration process or even insist on a military solution. On the STG side, I consider the SNA commanders to be particularly problematic; It's a fact that they've killed and tortured Kurdish civilians + looted their homes in the past. In northeastern Syria, the main issue lies with the political leadership, namely the PYD. Mazloum, on the other hand, is a good man - I am 100% convinced of that. He has a difficult past, but so does Sharaa. However, since Mazloum is the military leader not the political one, he cannot simply make all decisions on his own. Some figures within the political leadership (PYD) are problematic, for example Aldar Khalil or Salih Muslim. Both are problematic for the integration process. They are PKK hardliners and continue to employ child soldiers and suicide bombers, which were officially banned in 2019.

Integration( with autonomy, rights, etc) is what most Kurds in SDF support too, including Mazloum Abdi, not just Kurds in STG.

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FactChecker @lemmy.world 3w ago

tldr: Possibly, the diplomatic push is mostly US-France.

US and France started all of this Turkey would like PKK/YPG dealt with asap. Ofc even if STG hated Kurds they would push for this but for example 20% of new officer graduates in Aleppo are Kurds. SDF wanted a deal like what Barzani has in Iraq but Syria rejected it ( Turkey too) bcs of PKK/YPG. So far they haven't talked about the same rights for Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, etc. Their communities are smaller and in mixed areas so I doubt they would get the same legal rights as Kurds like in the case of language learning in school. Fidan the FM of Turkey and STG have been pushing the line "we love Kurds we just hate PKK" to try to chip away at SDF power so that people flip over. Still I think progress is being made but nobody can predict the future of course. I think it looks promising.

If you look at the way the government reacted to the massacres committed there is progress. There was an immense number of warcrimes committed on the coast mostly by ex-SNA( Turkish proxy) units, 1.4k dead, after that Syria started centralizing the military( still people like Abu Amsha have more autonomy, he is also well liked by Ankara despite ethnically cleansing Kurds in Afrin). Syria also embedded police units to run after the military ones in order to prevent war crimes from happening even before the events in the south. Israel bombed the space between the primary military units and the supporting ones tho and SAA units were seen assaulting civilians. For Sheikh Maqsoud, so far we have footage of only 4 wacrimes( mistreatment of POW) 2 of which of snipers , 1 of which w/ suicide belt. Also they made sure to use mostly ex-HTS, only 1 ex-SNA unit ( 72nd) was used. Compare that to 1.4k civilians killed on the coast.

If this deal builds towards a further SDF integration it would be far better not only for Kurds, Syrians in general human rights wise, but also al-Sharaa will have a counter to Abu Amsha and ex-SNA units that are loved by Turkey. If anything al-Sharaa is bringing Syria back in the Arab fold and trying to juggle alliances and influences so that he can govern. If STG builds good institutions in the future or if it can survive remains to be seen.

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FactChecker @lemmy.world 3w ago

New update: Syria's ( Kurdish) Education minister promised to fast track Kurdish language education. Full text below.

Minister of Education and Higher Education Muhammad Abdul Rahman Turko:

📌 In a pivotal national moment, the issuance of Decree No. 13 of 2026 by His Excellency the President of the Republic represents a new affirmation that Syria, with its ancient history and civilizational mission, is built upon the diversity of its people and its unity is solidified through respect for their cultural and linguistic identities within an inclusive national framework that excludes no one and marginalizes no component.

📌 The approval of teaching the Kurdish language in public schools, as stipulated by the decree, constitutes an advanced step in strengthening the values of equal citizenship and entrenching the cultural rights of Kurdish citizens as an integral part of the Syrian national fabric, and a tangible contribution to preserving cultural diversity as one of the sources of the civilizational and social richness of the Syrian state, and a clear embodiment of the state's commitment to the educational and cultural rights of its citizens without discrimination or exclusion.

📌 Based on our national and educational responsibility, we affirm in the Ministry of Education and Higher Education that we will proceed to prepare the necessary executive instructions and organizational decisions to implement the provisions of this decree in the shortest possible time, ensuring its immediate entry into actual implementation in everything related to the ministry's work, while taking into account established educational principles and academic standards, and guaranteeing a balanced and disciplined application that achieves the desired national and humanitarian goal.

📌 We believe that the Syrian school will remain the primary incubator for societal unity, and that education is the truest bridge for entrenching understanding, deepening national belonging, and building generations confident in their identity, proud of their diversity, and steadfast in the unity of their homeland in land and people.

📌 We pledge that our national schools will remain a space of belonging, not exclusion; a platform of justice, not discrimination; and a tool for preserving diversity to fortify unity among the people of this homeland, and a bridge of love that connects all Syrians—heart and soul, form and content.

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FactChecker @lemmy.world 3w ago

Yes, I do OSINT and fact-check for Syria and this is a very positive development. Still I want to underline that this document doesn't detail anything about Kurdish language courses in schools. Rn Kurdish is taught 2h a week. Another example Syria's army is still called its Assadist predecessor SAA - Syrian Arab Army. This might change and this document is a positive step towards that. Also the gov recognized Norwuz as a national holiday. Rn Mazloum Abdi the leader of SDF also announced it is leaving to east bank of the river. This is very good for Kurds and Syrians in general.

I also want to underline that this is just the next step of a series of diplomatic efforts by the US and France to make sure Syria is united, strong, and respects the rights of minorities. Before that you had March 10 agreement, etc. The details of what Sharaa signed now were agreed upon in October 2025.

FactChecker @lemmy.world 3w ago

Yep, I was searching for other interesting papers on Jihadology and stumbled across it. Another interesting one I found was a master's thesis describing how female suicide bombers are portrayed in UK media. " https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1483715/FULLTEXT01.pdf Martyrs and Heroines’ vs. ‘Victims and Suicide Attackers’ A Critical Discourse Analysis of YPJ’s and the UK media representations of the YPJ’s ideological agency"

FactChecker @lemmy.world 3w ago

I was there. It was even depicted in Total War: Napoleon

FactChecker @lemmy.world 4w ago

Iraqi Kurds have been reporting PJAK is fighting in West Azerbaijan Province for more than 5 days now. Most Kurds aren't separatist or pro-PJAK from the limited polls we have but the article is factural in what the Kurdish oppostion did.

FactChecker @lemmy.world 1mo ago

Turkey is starting to replace russia in the AES( Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger), it is a big partner of Sudan, but yeah recently RU shipped weapons to Madagascar

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FactChecker @lemmy.world 1mo ago

There is no public evidence nukes were lost and this is largely due to US Nunn-Lugar program and similar programs.

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FactChecker @lemmy.world 1mo ago

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398004362_No_meta-analytical_effect_of_economic_inequality_on_well-being_or_mental_health They published it for free too...

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FactChecker @lemmy.world 1mo ago

What in the whatabotism is this? There are scholars and posters that can focus on specific regions. I have deep knowledge about Sahel, Syria, and Ukraine, and I have posted credible articles about said regions and INDOPAC. I can talk about misinformation by a number of actors surrounding the Gaza war but I am not as proficient in the topic as some of my acquaintances are and in general I don't like to believe popular vote based forums are conducive to any kind of appropriate discussion on the topic. I don't understand the anti-scientific combativeness in your attitude, do all scientists have to cover all topics? I can also see your comment history but I think this is not the place for such a discussion. I do believe in highlighting Africa as a region that is deeply ignored despite JNIM and ISWAP causing more that 10x the deaths of all other terrorism in the world combined, Sudan war, etc.

FactChecker @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Not to mention them massacring the Fulani civilians, paying propagandists to call for a genocide of the Fulani, transporting YELLOW CAKE through jihadist territory, etc

FactChecker @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Defo. Meta also continues to profit from Russian propaganda, enabled the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, etc

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FactChecker @lemmy.world 2mo ago

They did a very good job, many of the OSINT work goes unreported. Example: people like All Eyes on Wagner, Casus Belli, Sonarrow, Debunk Cafe have been tracking Russian trafficking yellow cake out of Niger when most news outlets care fuck all about Africa.

FactChecker @lemmy.world 2mo ago

The article is from a Gulenist website but the report is credible. Turkey is the primary security provider of Somalia and is helping them against AQ.

FactChecker @lemmy.world 3mo ago

You can see it when you zoom in the original file, sorry for not including the source. At first I thought he posted it to twitter only, but now I realise it is just a crop of the original.