Are the Kurds guilty of the collapse of Syria? This title may appear to be an accusation at first glance, but on the contrary, the writer of the article exonerates the Kurds of all the accusations came from the parties that destroyed Syria and brought it to the present dire situation.
Under the above title, Stanislav Ivanov, wrote an article in Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Независимая газета) that exonerates the Kurds of separatist charges and attempts to destroy the Syrian state.
The article said, “Recently, the Syrian Kurds have been accused of separatism and the destruction of the Syrian state. But the absurdity and deception of such assurances is clear.
Syrian Kurdish leaders have repeatedly stated that they are not separatists and are always prepared to talk to representatives of the current Syrian authorities and the opposition about a wide range of problems, including the future state regime in Syria, but the wait has not borne fruit, the writer said.
He added, “all the parties, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his opponents, ignore the fact that there are a special Kurdish people inside Syria: Arab leaders have repeatedly stressed to not establish federals in the Syrian state or autonomy, and the Kurdish delegations were excluded from the negotiating process in Geneva and Astana. Ankara and Tehran each see the regime in Damascus as a puppet.”
“In Moscow, they are trying to accuse the Kurds of creating an imagined -state in northeastern Syria, although it is well known when and under what circumstances the Assad government lost control of this land,” he said on the Russian position.
The article did not overlook the role of regional states such as Turkey and Iran in the aggravation of the Syrian situation and complexity, “The quasi-states in Syria are created by Iranian ayatollahs and Turkish forces. A foreign Shiite militia of about 100,000 troops under the command of the IRGC effectively controls the Assad-controlled part of Syria, whose majority remains in refugee camps in neighboring countries (Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, etc.), half of Syria, in fact, a Shiite enclave of Iran. This is causing growing concern in the US, Israel, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.”
The writer concluded his article with a vision of the solution in Syria where he said: “the withdrawal of all foreign military units from Syria and the replacement of peacekeepers under the auspices of the United Nations replace them, if necessary, could stop the civil war in this country and create conditions for the revival of the Syrian state within the previous borders, or peaceful co-existence among the Syrians in the existing enclaves of the major population groups (the Sunni Arabs, the Sunni Alawites, and the Kurds.)
Similar precedents have occurred in the history of the country, for example, in the years 1923-1936, there was an Alawite state on the territory of the current Syrian Arab Republic and its capital was Latakia.
