Elections of the Local Council of Northeast Syria; Qasd and the dream of the Kurdish region

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, Kurdish armed groups known as QSD In the northeast of Syria, in order to legitimize their illegal autonomy in the east of the Euphrates, they are seeking to hold elections in this region. The Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which in alliance with some Arab and Assyrian nomads in northeastern Syria, has formed a coalition called the Syrian Democratic Forces “Syria al-Demoqratiye Forces”, which is abbreviated as QSD, and since 2015 has been forming an administrative structure and It is effective.

According to the history of American support to the SDF in recent years, this assessment was formed that the creation of an autonomous region like the Iraqi Kurdistan region in the northeast of Syria is in line with Washington’s policies, which happens to The reason for having oil resources can become an important actor in this region. It seems that the SDF’s decision to hold local council elections in al-Hasakah and east of the Euphrates is actually a political step towards realizing the dream of forming the Syrian Kurdistan region. As the ruler of the North East, he demanded that local council elections not be held and the reason for this position is that the conditions for these elections are not available at the moment, but it is no secret that the so-called People’s Defenders units, with the support of the United States, have been have been active in the region.

Even now, it seems that the attempt to hold these elections is actually an attempt to give political legitimacy to this self-proclaimed government in the east of the Euphrates.

In this regard, Mazloum Kobani, the commander of the People’s Defense Units, emphasized in an interview three days ago that the situation will not return to before the Syrian civil war (2011). This position shows that the Workers’ Party wants to seek the formation of a local council for the implementation of affairs and possibly a legislative council in order to be present in the future negotiations of Syria as an unavoidable fact through holding elections.

The problem here is that many Arab nomads east of the Euphrates, who have always been dissatisfied with the ethnocentric approach of the QSD units and the discrimination between Kurds and Arabs, have boycotted the local council elections.

In addition, other Kurdish parties In Hasakah, the Kurdistan Workers Party’s military wing has serious criticisms and they are not willing to participate in these elections.

It does not accept Syria and it is not far from the expectation that it will respond appropriately to these movements at the first opportunity. In the north, Turkey is also very worried about the coming to power of the Workers’ Party, which has historically had the worst relations with Ankara, and the continuation of this trend could probably lead to military movements similar to the Cheshme Noor operation in 2019.

Meanwhile, the American government has taken a divisive approach in the West Asian region due to its plans. On the one hand, Washington refuses to publicly support the SDF due to its relations with Turkey and exchanges with this country in the cases related to the war in Ukraine, and on the other hand, during the last 13 years, it has been the most important supporter of the SDF units for the creation of the Syrian Kurdistan region by following the model It was Iraqi.