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Syria rejects Kurds’ call for creation of decentralized state
Children who fled the ongoing battles between Turkish-backed groups and Syrian Kurdish forces in Tal Rifaat and other areas of the northern Aleppo province, gather in the yard of a school in the northeastern city of Hasakeh where they took refuge, on January 5, 2025. (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
The Syrian presidency rejects a Kurdish call for a decentralized state, warning against attempts at separatism or federalism by the minority group.
“We reject clearly any attempt to impose a separatist reality or to create separate entities under the cover of federalism… without a national consensus,” the presidency says in a statement in which it also condemns “the recent activities and declarations” of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces that “call for federalism.”
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