The British envoy to Syria confirms to Sheikh Al-Hijri her support for the Suwayda movement
ARK News… The United Kingdom's envoy to Syria, Anna Snow, made a call with the spiritual head of the Druze Unitarian sect, Sheikh Hikmat Al-Hijri, during which she confirmed her support for the Suwayda uprising against the Syrian regime.
Snow said, “I spoke today with Sheikh Hikmat Al-Hijri, as part of a series of contacts with those involved in the protest movement,” adding that Britain is “closely monitoring the situation.”
British diplomacy stressed that "the political process led by the Syrians and facilitated by the United Nations in line with Security Council Resolution 2254 is the only way to protect the rights of all Syrians."
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جولة سياسية وتنظيمية لسكرتير الديمقراطي الكوردستاني – سوريا على منظمات الحزب في تركيا
خلال جولة على بعض منظمات الحزب في مدن تركيا، عقد محمد إسماعيل سكرتير الحزب الديمقراطي الكوردستاني – سوريا جلسات سياسية تنظيمية، والتقى مع فعاليات مجتمعية وسياسية وعشائرية.
عقد سكرتير الديمقراطي الكوردستاني – سوريا، في اسطنبول وقزل تبه، جلسات سياسية تنظيمية لأعضاء الحزب، بحضور مسلم محمد عضو اللجنة المركزية ومسؤول منظمة الحزب في تركيا.
وتطرق محمد إسماعيل إلى آخر التطورات والأحداث السياسية على الساحتين السورية والكوردية، إلى جانب الحديث عن أهمية العمل التنظيمي وتطويره.
وفي مدينة أورفا، التقى سكرتير الحزب الديمقراطي الكوردستاني – سوريا مع وفد من وجهاء وشيوخ العشائر السورية، ووفد من حزب يكيتي الكوردستاني – سوريا برئاسة "حنان عباس" عضو اللجنة التنظيمية للحزب.
والتقى مع وفد ضم وجهاء ومثقفين من "كوباني وعفرين"، ووفد مجتمعي وسياسي من مدينة أورفا.
واختتم محمد إسماعيل جولته بعقد ندوة سياسية وتنظيمية لأعضاء الحزب في أورفا. تحدث فيها عن دور الحزب الفعال وضرورة تفعيل نشاطه وتعزيزه بين الجماهير.
وتطرق إلى آخر التطورات والأحداث في سوريا، مشيدا بأهمية الدور الريادي للمجلس الوطني الكوردي في سوريا كإطار جامع لكورد سوريا، ومؤكدا ضرورة ارتقاء أدائه.
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The European Union has allocated 170 million euros for the year 2023 to implement projects in Syria
ARK News… The head of the European Union delegation to Syria, Dan Stanescu, revealed that the value of the humanitarian projects completed by the European Union in Syria since 2011 has reached 30 billion euros.
During an interview with Al-Madina FM Radio, Dan Stanescu, head of the European Union delegation to Syria, said that the European Union has allocated 170 million euros for the year 2023 alone for emergency needs.
Dan Stanescu stressed that the European Union does not deal with the government of the Syrian regime regarding the selection and implementation of its projects, but rather consults local partners in Syria and working United Nations agencies, and also takes ideas and suggestions from Syrian communities to decide which projects should be implemented.
The head of the European Union delegation to Syria indicated that the Union supports the United Nations goal of reaching a comprehensive political solution in Syria, in accordance with Security Council Resolution No. 2254.
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Yashar Guler sets conditions for Turkey to withdraw from Syria
ARK News… Turkish Defense Minister Yashar Guler renewed his country's position on the Syrian regime, stressing that the "withdrawal" demand repeated by the latter is unrealistic, and that it must take steps regarding the return of refugees.
Guler said in an interview with the Turkish newspaper “Hurriyat”: “Why should we leave Syria? We will do so after ensuring the security of our borders and providing a peaceful environment that facilitates the return of the Syrians.”
The Turkish minister added, “The Syrian regime must fulfill certain promises and take steps to ensure security or support steps so that Syrian citizens can return to their country voluntarily and in peace.”
Yashar Guler added: “Return to Syria is not possible just by saying it,” because those who fled the Syrian regime’s massacre do not trust it, and want to believe that their lives and property are guaranteed when they return to the country.
Guler pointed out: “The most appropriate solution is to complete the constitutional discussions, then hold elections that include all segments of society, form a government, and then direct the invitation to citizens.”
The Turkish minister explained: Turkey is ready to return to the negotiating table, referring to the quadripartite meetings.
Guler set conditions for withdrawal, most notably the establishment of a “safe zone” in northern Syria, holding elections and accepting the constitution, “which the Syrian regime must do now.”
According to the Turkish minister, his country “does not need anyone’s land...but when there are 4 million Syrians in our country, how will we leave?”
Adding: “Can we leave that place without providing a safe environment?”
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Fires in Tartous and the use of helicopters to control them
ARK News… Fires broke out in one of the mountains of the city of Tartous, on Friday, September 29, 2023, causing extensive damage amid fears that they will reach the cave reserve.
The fires broke out in the village of Kaf Al-Hamam, Wadi Safi, and the foot of Jabal Juwaidi in the Sheikh Badr area of Tartous.
The head of the Sheikh Badr City Council, Engineer Muhammad Al-Ali, stated in a statement to the Syrian “SANA” agency that the fire brigades made every attempt to control the fire, but the fires spread throughout the entire Qat Mountain, explaining that the fire brigades are trying to prevent the fire from reaching the cave reserve.
Al-Ali pointed out that due to the wide area of the fire and the difficulty of the area, helicopters were used to put out the fire at the foot of Mount Juwaidi.
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The migration route takes away three more people from Syrian Kurdistan
ARK News… The families of Kamiran Ahmed and Walid Qasim, who were from Kobani city, learned of their death after losing contact with them more than three months ago off the Greek shores.
More than three months ago, they wanted to reach a European country, but communication with them was cut off, and through a DNA test, they were identified, according to a source from the city of Kobani.
In another incident, the family of engineer Silava Mustafa Adde, who hails from the village of Ghazawiya in the city of Afrin in Syrian Kurdistan, told ARK that she died on the Belarusian border during her asylum journey to Europe.
The young woman's uncle added that the engineer was residing in Lebanon with her family, studied in Lebanon and graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, and because of fatigue and exhaustion, she died during a failed smuggling attempt from Belarus to a European country.
Due to the war raging in Syria since 2011, families are trying to escape to safer countries, and hundreds of young Kurdish young men and families seek every day to secure a decent life in countries that provide the best for them and their children. During the journey to arrive illegally, many are exposed to killing, drowning, looting, theft, exploitation, trafficking, and accidents. A journey in which they lose their lives and the hope of escaping the hell of war and living in countries where the simplest necessities of life are available is buried with them.
The fate of hundreds of young Kurds remains unknown amid appeals from their families to humanitarian and charitable organizations and relevant authorities to reveal the fate of the missing and provide any information about them.
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Afrin… More than three families return to Afrin region
ARK News… The return of displaced and refugee Kurdish families to their hometown of Afrin and its towns and villages continues, the most recent of which is the return of three Kurdish families according to information received, on Friday, September 29, 2023.
A Kurdish activist who preferred to remain anonymous reported in exclusive statements to ARK that three families returned within two days to the villages of Qasim, Karre and Kura.
The source confirmed that the families returned from Turkey and the Al Shahba camps in the Aleppo countryside.
The past few months have witnessed the unprecedented return of displaced Kurdish families in Aleppo and those displaced in the Al Shahba camps, as well as refugees in Lebanon, Turkey and the Kurdistan Region.
After the Afrin war, more than 300,000 Kurds were displaced to the Al-Shahba camps, and they became victims of the PYD administration’s policy controlling the camps and the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiya neighborhoods in Aleppo, which prevents the displaced from making their decision to return or head to other areas.
Despite the horrific violations taking place in Afrin, the displaced Kurds decided to return to their hometown, especially after more than five years had passed since they remained in the camps in the Aleppo countryside.
Politicians call for the need to return to limit demographic change in the region.
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The mysterious fate of journalist Barzan Hussein and Junaid Majeed
ARK News… PYD militants continue to kidnap Barzan Hussein, a journalist in the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Syria, and arrest Junaid Sayyid Majeed, a member of the logical council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Syria, in the town of Girke Lage of Derik city in Syrian Kurdistan. On Friday, September 29, 2023, more than a month and a half has passed since their kidnapping, while their fate remains unknown.
In continuation of the policy of kidnapping and intimidation against members and activists of the Kurdish National Council and the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Syria, they were kidnapped by PYD militants on August 15.
Condemnation by the Kurdish National Council
The Kurdish National Council in Syria condemned "in the strongest terms the intimidating arrests of journalist Barzan Hussein and activist Junaid Sayed Majeed." Demanding their immediate release. The Council affirmed, "These arrests come to intimidate citizens and increase the security grip on the people's necks to prevent any mass reactions and protests that may occur." It also called on "human rights organizations and international bodies to intervene and prevent these violations against citizens and activists."
Statement from the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate - Syria
On the tenth anniversary of its founding, the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate - Syria, on September 19, issued a statement, affirming, “The PYD administration looks with adversity and hostility at every journalist who does not intersect with its ideas, and there are still Kurdish journalists in its basements and prisons. The administration’s authorities are obstructing the work of journalists, among them, more than a month ago, was the journalist Barzan Layani”.
For its part, the Syrian Journalists Association called for the immediate release of our colleague Barzan Hussein, and while expressing its full solidarity with his family, it appeals at the same time to all journalists, institutions, media bodies, and human rights organizations in northeastern Syria in particular and Syria in general to exert pressure for his release, and to preserve freedom of the press. And protect all journalists.”
The Syrian Kurdistan Writers Union, the General Union of Kurdish Writers and Journalists, and a group of Kurdish and Syrian organizations also called on the PYD administration to release them immediately.
Since taking power from the Syrian regime, the PYD administration in the regions of Syrian Kurdistan and the Arab regions under its control continues the policy of gagging mouths and targeting politicians and activists. Journalist Barzan Hussein Liyani was previously kidnapped more than once.
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A human rights network confirms the presence of more than 270 children in SDF camps
ARK News… The Syrian Network for Human Rights revealed that hundreds of children are still under compulsory conscription in camps that run by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The Syrian Network for Human Rights published a statement in which it said: Nearly 271 children are still under compulsory conscription in camps that run by the Syrian Democratic Forces.
Although the Syrian Democratic Forces signed an action plan with the United Nations to end and prevent the recruitment of children under the age of 18 and their use in military operations, on June 29, 2019, the involvement of minors in battles and their recruitment still continues.
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المبعوثة البريطانية إلى سوريا تؤكد للشيخ الهجري دعمها لحراك السويداء
أجرت مبعوثة المملكة المتحدة إلى سوريا، آنا سنو، اتصالاً مع الرئيس الروحي لطائفة الموحدين الدروز، الشيخ حكمت الهجري، أكدت خلاله دعمها لانتفاضة السويداء ضد النظام السوري.
وقالت سنو "تحدثت اليوم مع الشيخ حكمت الهجري، ضمن سلسلة اتصالات مع المنخرطين في الحركة الاحتجاجية"، مضيفة أن بريطانيا "تراقب الوضع عن كثب".
وأكدت الدبلوماسية البريطانية أن "العملية السياسية التي يقودها السوريون وتيسرها الأمم المتحدة بما يتماشى مع قرار مجلس الأمن 2254 هي السبيل الوحيد لحماية حقوق جميع السوريين".
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