Baladi News – Al-Hasakah (Kinan Sultan)
In a statement issued last Monday, a coalition of Arab and Turkmen clans refused the constitution drafted by the Kurdish National Council, the political organization represented in The National Coalition for Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces commonly known as the Syrian National Coalition. The coalition of the clans indicated that this constitution is not different from the one put forward by the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which militias control vast areas in northern Syria.
The Kurdish National Council drafted a constitution of the so-called “the Western Kurdistan or Syrian Kurdistan” consisting of 132 articles prepared by committees from the United States and Europe. A few days earlier, PYD declared, from one side, a constitution that adopts federalism in northern Syria, making al-Qamishli the capital of this federal system.
In its statement, the coalition of the clans said, “We refuse what was put forward and called the constitution of the Western Kurdistan by the Kurdish National Council”. The coalition considered that “the constitution of the Kurdish National Council does not represent the view point of Syrian people, including Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, Assyrians and the other components.”
The coalition of the clans emphasized that the Kurdish National Council is not entitled to draft a constitution without holding a referendum for the Syrian people on the fate of their country.
The coalition considered the Kurdish National Council, affiliated with the Syrian National Coalition, as “the official speaker of the desires of the terrorist PYD thug seeking for the dismemberment of Syria.”
“We reject this constitution categorically, and we look at the Syrian territory as one geographic spot governed by one constitution that guarantees freedom, dignity, and equality for all citizens and is prepared by representative of the Syrian people after the fall of the Levant’s despot.”
Over the past five years, the Kurdish National Coalition has represented the Kurdish opposition against the Syrian regime under the umbrella of the Syrian National Coalition. This coalition is trying to regain its legitimacy after it has been overwhelmed by PYD, the party supporting the Syrian regime.