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Establishment of Kurdish self-administration in northern Syria, 2012-2014
· Northern Syria
The PYD and allied Kurdish parties established a self-governing administration across three non-contiguous cantons in northern Syria amid the Syrian civil war.
What happened
The Democratic Union Party (PYD) was founded in Syria in 2003 as a Syrian offshoot of the PKK.[1] The Kurdish Supreme Committee, established by the PYD and the Kurdish National Council in July 2012, became the governing body of what came to be called Rojava, the Kurdish-majority region of northern Syria; in November 2013 the PYD announced an interim government divided into three non-contiguous autonomous cantons (Afrin, Jazira and Kobani), with the People's Protection Units (YPG) as its armed wing.[2]
Sources for this page
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Claim: The Democratic Union Party (PYD) was founded in Syria in 2003 as a Syrian offshoot of the PKK.
- Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (Wikipedia) link, Founding section. Source record
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Claim: The Kurdish Supreme Committee, established by the PYD and the Kurdish National Council in July 2012, became the governing body of what came to be called Rojava, the Kurdish-majority region of northern Syria; in November 2013 the PYD announced an interim government divided into three non-contiguous autonomous cantons (Afrin, Jazira and Kobani), with the People's Protection Units (YPG) as its armed wing, in a period of the Syrian civil war during which Syrian government forces largely withdrew from these areas.
- Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (Wikipedia) link, Kurdish Supreme Committee and interim cantonal government sections. Source record
- The Rojava Revolution - A Decade On (Rojava Information Center) link, Origins section. Advocacy organisation perspective Source record