Syrian Kurds Prepare For Self-Governance
The PKK-affiliated Democratic Union Party is consulting the political parties of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq on plans to form an interim government for Kurdish-controlled enclaves in Syria.
The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which is close to the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), has proposed a plan to form an interim administration within three months, a referendum on a draft constitution and parliamentary elections within six months.
Rumors suggested that the PYD would announce their autonomy project officially on July 19. On this day, the PYD commemorates the one-year anniversary of the withdrawal of Assad's forces from nine Kurdish-dominated towns. The PYD controls most of the Kurdish areas apart from Assad-controlled Qamishli and some mixed cities and towns in the provinces of Hasakah and Aleppo.
