Highlights 30.03.-05.04.2026
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# 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.
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