MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Earlier this week, Syrian President Bashar Assad told Sputnik in an exclusive interview that the Syrian people would not support Syrian Kurds’ decision to create a federal region in the country's north.
"The unilateral PYD’s [the Kurdish Democratic Union Party] declaration on federalization in the northern cities dictated by the exclusion of Kurds from the [intra-Syrian] talks was not very appropriate and not helping in finding a political solution. However, should the Syrian people and the Kurds to decide they want to decentralize, this matter must be taken to vote," Samir Aita said.
At a constituent conference in the Hasakah province on March 17, the Syrian Kurds announced the creation of the so-called Federal Democratic System of Rojava and Northern Syria. Some 200 delegates from Syria’s north, home to a predominantly Kurdish population, attended the conference.
The Kurds are a Middle Eastern ethnic group with the population of some 30-35 million living mainly in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.
