Kurds in Northern Syria to Draft Federalization Document Within 6 Months

© AFP 2023 / MIGUEL MEDINAA Kurdish fighter from the "Popular Protection Units" (YPG) is pictured in the majority-Kurdish Sheikh Maqsud district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on April 21, 2013.
A Kurdish fighter from the Popular Protection Units (YPG) is pictured in the majority-Kurdish Sheikh Maqsud district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on April 21, 2013. - Sputnik International
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The inaugural council of the self-declared Democratic Federal System for Rojava and Northern Syria plans to enact a federalization law within the next six months, a Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) source said on Thursday.

BEIRUT (Sputnik) — The body to draft the federalization document is yet to be elected, the source said, adding that it could comprise 31 members, a number that may be increased.

Kurdish people carry flags as they march during a protest in the city of al-Derbasiyah, on the Syrian-Turkish border, against what the protesters said were the operations launched in Turkey by government security forces against the Kurds, February 9, 2016 - Sputnik International
Syrian Kurds Ready to Present Federalization Project to Int'l Community
Earlier on Thursday, members of a Kurdish conference in the Syrian town of Rmeilan announced the creation of a federal region in Syria's north that would remain a part of Syria.

All ethnicities living in northern Syria will be represented in the Kurdish federal region's ruling bodies including Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens, Syrians and Syrian Armenians, Rojava's co-chairman told Sputnik earlier.

The announcement came against the backdrop of a new round of Syrian peace talks in Geneva and strong opposition among all stakeholders to the division and the breakdown of Syrian territorial integrity.

So far, the federalization was rejected by Damascus as unlawful.

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