The Syrian Transitional Government continues to provoke the Kurds. 🇸🇾
Authorities in Damascus replaced the sign at the Palace of Justice in Hasakah, which had been written in Arabic and Kurdish, with a new one in Arabic and English, removing all traces of the Kurdish language. This led protesters to forcibly remove the sign and destroy it.
Actions such as these call into question Damascus’s willingness to integrate the Kurdish minority into its sphere of influence, reminding us that Jolani’s January announcement about granting more rights to the Kurds is nothing but empty words—just like the status of the Kurdish language itself, which has been recognized as a “national language,” an ambiguity used to promise greater (theoretical, of course) to the language without granting it official status, which remains Arabic.
This occurred in parallel with popular demonstrations in Kobani, protesting the new authorities’ discriminatory policies toward the Kurdish population.