A-Infos (en) UK, AFEd, Organise: (A) REPORT FROM NES - 30/05.03.26 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Question of YPJ Integration into Syrian Army ---- The position of YPJ is 
a key stumbling block in the integration process. Publicly made 
suggestions of what integration should look like from the STG side 
insist on it becoming part of a (women's) police force, instead of being 
collectively granted a place in the military which YPJ demands. On April 
2nd a YPJ delegation discussed the topic in Damascus and said that the 
minister showed some openness and 'flexibility'. However what this means 
concretely is unclear. YPJ, which just celebrated their 14th 
anniversary, has been a cornerstone of the Rojava revolution and is not 
willing to dissolve nor to integrate individually.

Tensions in Jalabiya
According to the agreements between the SDF and STG, important offices 
should be held by people from the areas they govern. With the 
appointment of a mayor by the STG, Kobane residents say this is not 
being applied. Officials from other regions are appointed without the 
promised consultation of Kobane residents. The people of the city where 
also violently prevented by STG security forces to express their dissent 
by way of a statement. This is another point of friction in the 
integration process. Thus, people took to the streets in protest, and 
were met with live fire, which they see as a breach of the January 29 
agreement.

Second Larger Group of Afrin Residents Return
Another convoy of 200 people who were displaced from Afrin now returned 
with about 145 vehicles from Hesekeh to their homes. As part of the 
January 29 agreement, STG overlooked the transit.

4 Civilians Abducted from Serekaniye
Turkish military police abducted four civilians from occupied Serekaniye 
handing them over to Turkish secret service. Their whereabouts remain 
unclear.

Protests Demanding to Know About Missing People
Protests took place in Kobane and Qamishlo to demand more information 
about people still missing. With prisoner exchanges some detainees have 
returned home, while many families remain without information of their 
loved ones. There was also a protest in front of the UN in Geneva to 
demand information on the two journalists that went missing in Raqqa, 
now about two months ago.

First Steps for Syrian Citizenship for Stateless Kurds
Following a January 16 decree, the Syrian Interim Government set up 
places where 'stateless' Kurds can go to register, as a first step to 
eventual citizenship in the Syrian state. This comes after decades of 
systematically removing or denying citizenship for Kurds living in Syria 
that started in the 1960s.

Explosion in Hesekeh, Children Among Dead
An explosion in a shop in Hesekeh took the lives of six people including 
children. The origins and reasons for the explosions remain unclear.

Turkey Rents Out Kurdish Villages in Bakur as Training Facility to Military
Since the 'scorched earth' politics of 1990, Kurdish villages around 
Mount Sirnex had been emptied and people are prohibited from resettling 
or even stepping foot up to this day. Now it got known that since 2009, 
the Turkish state had been renting out those places to the military for 
49 years. Besides the use for military training, those areas have been 
turned into extraction sites for timber, coal, and other raw material. 
Additionally, there are plans for a dam that would flood and thereby 
extinguish at least two villages. Among those is the village Sax which 
is registered a first grade archaeological site.

Monthly evaluation
On the ground in Rojava, not much has changed over March. The situation 
still seems fragile. The more the time goes, the more negotiations and 
agreements are falling short on their implementation, it becomes more 
clear that women liberation is the core of this revolution. It is 
something we already knew as it is often emphasized, but it is becoming 
very clear once again. As political and military lines are changing due 
to "integration", it is the women's movement that helps to remember 
where are the fault lines and main contradictions located. The 
discussions about YPJ are the most clear example of it.

For all those forces who those who try to impose their authority, the 
question of women's freedom, together with the proposal of all nations 
coexisting together with ethnic and cultural autonomy, is still a 
problem. It questions their legitimacy, it poses a danger to the program 
of the Syrian state, as well as to the ongoing regional projects of 
Israel, US and Turkey. It is a reminder about the real ongoing struggles 
and the eventuality of renewed war. The military structures of SDF, as 
well as the civilian bodies of the Autonomous Administration, continue 
their resistance, navigating the contradictions and conflicts as they come.

One thing is sure, the Syrian civil war is not over yet: there are 
constant militarized attacks on minorities, there is Assadist 
underground insurgency, there are powerful Arab tribes who won't accept 
external domination, there is Israeli intervention in the south, there 
are Druze who advocate for independence from Syria... And there are also 
entire battalions of religious fundamentalists, who after more than a 
decade fighting for an islamic state with al-Qaeda or ISIS, see now 
themselves integrated in the new Syrian army. Many of them are 
comfortable as they rise the ranks of state power, but others are 
disappointed to see the new Syrian government shaking hands with US, 
Russia and Israel. That is creating a perfect ground for ISIS, which is 
on the rise again .

Syria is far from any sort of resolution and peace, and on top of all 
that the new regional war, unleashed by the attacks of Israel and US 
against Iran, are making things even more complicated. Kurdish forces 
are trying to keep distance with this war, not just in Syria but also in 
Iran. Revolutionary forces are working to build up a political alliance 
with other forces opposed to the Islamic republic, mainly other Kurdish 
parties but not only. They are not rushing into the war, knowing from 
experience that war itself won't address the political and ideological 
struggle that is needed for a real transformation of society.

Still, iranian drones are not only exploding on US bases, but also on 
critical infrastructure all around middle east. Several locations on the 
Kurdish regions in Iraq are suffering attacks, including kurdish 
revolutionary territories close to the iranian border. KRG authorities 
don't have the capacity to stop iranian dornes, and even the house of 
Maseud Barzani has become a target for the Shahed drones.

Another sidetrack of this war is how it is serving as excuse for Turkey 
to stall the peace process started in Bakur. It gives them the perfect 
smoke cover to simply delay any steps for democratization, leaving the 
steps taken by the revolutionary movement made in this last year 
unanswered. Still, many kurds continue working tirelessly for such a 
peace process. In Öcalans recent message for Newroz, emphasis was put on 
action, on making the struggle practical. A key term coming up in this 
regard is the commune, thus efforts of grassroots decentralized 
self-organisation of society. But when it comes to the Turkish 
government, seems clear they prefer to wait, leaving doors open to 
consider what will be more beneficial for them based on the results of 
the war on Iran.

All this unfolding conflicts are forcing us more than ever to reflect 
what it means to be a revolutionary. Rojava created an example of what a 
stateless society can be, navigating a sea of local, regional and 
geopolitical conflicts with really high consequences. But nothing lasts 
forever and the situation is constantly changing, constantly evolving. 
Can we achieve victory through war as the dominant field of struggle? 
Perhaps the answer might not be the same everywhere. In Kurdistan, the 
Kurdish Liberation Movement has been fighting a war for over half a 
century. Currently this movement is taking steps to open their for 
political maneuvering, shifting away from armed struggle as the main 
strategy without losing their means of self-defense. Now, can this 
revolutionary society coexist with the Syrian state and wage this 
political struggle, can it stop the war? The answer to this is unfolding 
before our eyes, but the final result is yet to be seen.

Revolutionary greetings

(A) Report From NES

https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2026/04/08/a-report-from-nes-30-05-03-26/
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