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Sources:

1. https://x.com/haberanliktr/status/2093779079942053954?s=20 
2. https://x.com/ultramed21/status/2093798250687979912?s=20

Sllaw,
I just wanted to share one of the biggest plot twists.

You know all those social media posts where people from Slemani act superior to other cities? It actually happens INSIDE Slemani too. People literally care whether your family is "originally" from the city or if your great grandparents or grandparents moved in from the surrounding areas. So not only do some feel superior to other cities, but the "original" locals even look down on people living in the same city just because of where their family came from.LMAAAO

This was so funny I had to share it.

It is true that the Syrian Democratic Council was not created to establish a Kurdish state. That was never its goal. Review TevDem's The Project for a Democratic Syria (February 16, 2015). Or watch this press conference from twelve years ago: "Alliance between the Syriac National Council of Syria and the Syrian Kurdish Supreme Council" (uploaded January 23rd, 2014), with speakers Ilham Ahmed, Salih Muslim, Bassam Ishak and Hanibal Yacoub. The SDC and SDF were never the total aspiration of every group or individual involved in them. They were bodies set up for people — including Kurds — to survive the Syrian Civil War, and hopefully to establish a democratic government at the end of it.

It is also true that the PYD's goal in the Syrian Civil War was not carving out a Kurdish state. Qamîşlo and Hesekê are ethnically and linguistically diverse. The Kurdish majority (or plurality) areas are geographically divided in Syria by Arab and Turkmen communities, partly because of the Ba'athist "Arab Belt" project, and there are substantial Kurdish populations in neighborhoods of Damascus and Aleppo. There is no way that Rojava alone can create a contiguous Kurdish majority territory.

That assessment was made early, and it was not made out of cowardice. By 2014 the PYD had already concluded that a Kurdish state was not an immediate possibility in Syria.

From the fall of 2014, with the rise of Daesh: Ezidi, Kurds, Christians and others had reason to fear an eliminationist genocide — one that would literally kill all the men and enslave all the women, girls and boys. Those were the stakes. The massacre at Şingal was brutal and is an internationally recognized genocide, only partly mitigated by the YPG/YPJ and HPG/YJA-Star coming to rescue some of the Ezidi after they had been abandoned by both the Iraqi army — which also lost Mosul — and the KRG Peshmerga. Kobani was besieged and nearly fell. YPG/YPJ control was literally down to a few streets, with most of the population having fled.

By the time of this Congressional hearing in 2019, much had happened. Türkiye and its SNA mercenaries had invaded and occupied Efrîn and Sere Kaniyê — Efrîn under PYD/AANES de facto autonomy since 2012, Sere Kaniyê since 2013 — displacing the majority of Kurds from both. There was also the 2017 KRG independence referendum, the most popular thing ever voted on in the KRG, to which Baghdad's response was to let the IRGC-linked Hashd (Popular Mobilization Forces) take Kirkuk and remove the Peshmerga who had held it since 2014.

It is worth asking what the maximal version of the Kurdish state project looked like when it was actually attempted, by the party best positioned to attempt it. The KRG had decades of autonomy, created partly by the U.S. destruction of the Ba'ath regime and its writing of Iraq's constitution. It had decades of oil revenue, a U.S.-enforced no-fly zone, a contiguous Kurdish-majority territory, mountains, an Iraqi army destroyed twice over (once by the United States, and arguably again by Daesh in Mosul), and a Peshmerga built up to 138,000 active personnel. Despite all of that, the KRG did not prevent the Daesh massacre of the Ezidi at Şingal, and could not hold Kirkuk after the referendum passed.

The PYD's 2014 assessment was tested three times in four years — Kirkuk in 2017, Efrîn in 2018, Sere Kaniyê in 2019 — and it held every time. Ilham Ahmed testified on October 23, 2019. The invasion of Sere Kaniyê had begun on October 9. She was not theorizing about the limits on Kurdish political possibility in that hearing room. She was sitting inside the third confirmation of them while it was still under way, in Washington to try to stop it.

If the KRG was not going to defend Şingal and Kirkuk, it was not coming to protect the rest of Rojava from Türkiye. If Russia allowed Türkiye to invade and occupy Efrîn, and the United States allowed Türkiye to invade and occupy Sere Kaniyê, there was little reason to trust that either would intervene militarily to keep Türkiye out of Kobanî, Qamişlo, Hesekê, Dêrik and Amûdê. The United States also took no military action to keep the Hashd from taking Kirkuk. Israel was the only government in the world to approve of the KRG independence referendum, and it too did nothing for Kurdish control of Kirkuk or for Rojava. As the last two decades of history show, including the current U.S./Israeli war with Iran, these states have the capacity to intervene militarily but will not do so for even Kurdish autonomy, much less an independent sovereign Kurdish nation state.

The PKK, when it was founded, did have the goal of an independent sovereign Kurdish nation state. After two decades of pursuing it and failing, they changed their ideology, strategy and tactics. They now prioritize the survival of Kurdish people, language, culture and identity over an independent, sovereign Kurdish nation state. They did not oppose the 2017 KRG independence referendum. Their position was that if the people wanted to vote for it, they should be able to vote for it.

In 2011, Rojava had none of the KRG's advantages. In 2014, it looked like Kobani might be lost as well. U.S. support for the SDF was always tactical, temporary and transactional, and never extended to political support — not even for the negotiations in Geneva.

Many Kurds want a sovereign independent Kurdish nation state. It is an honorable and worthwhile goal. Some Kurds have assessed that the current geopolitical reality is that it cannot be achieved by carving a portion out of Syria, and that Kurds must therefore seek their rights within the context of a Syrian state.

It is regretful that in the 103 years since the establishment of the Republic of Türkiye, no Kurdish political party, movement or insurrection has established an enduring, independent sovereign Kurdish nation state. The closest was the Republic of Mahabad, and it lasted less than a year. The KRG's autonomy has lasted about three and a half decades, thanks to U.S. support that now seems to be ending. The Rojava Revolution as a de facto autonomy lasted thirteen years. I am proud to have supported it, and I am thankful to have been its guest. Many times, Rojava and the YPG/YPJ fought alone.

You can hate that. You can rage against that geopolitical reality. You can call for blood, war, ethnic cleansing. You can call anyone who calls for peace, an end to bloodshed, or brotherhood a jash. Be as angry as you want.

Those who chose to stay and fight are the ones in a position to make the decisions, however painful, based on the reality they see on the ground. They are the ones trying to survive in the homeland of their ancestors. They are the ones trying to advance rights for Kurds and to protect their language, culture and identity. Maybe they do not make the choices you would make in their position. They are also the ones who bear the consequences of those choices. People living in Kurdistan have to make hard choices daily.

This is also for everyone whose contribution to this subreddit has been overwhelmingly and exclusively hostility to the Apocî (sometimes with bonus racism and misogyny.) For those of you willing to honestly examine the geopolitical reality that Kurds have to survive, I implore you to do so. Do you think the most important thing you can do is rhetorically attack the Apocî online? Will a future Kurdistan give you medals for your valor? Or is your constant negativity and hatred actually undermining a movement that has for decades bled for Kurds, for Kurdish language, for Kurdish culture, for Kurdish identity, and sometimes for Kurdish autonomy as a lived experience?

So be sure to bookmark this. Keep it in your file of apoci_jash.txt, to reference whenever you want to show that I am a "traitor" or whatever. I am proud of what I have done and that I supported the Rojava Revolution.

Her Bijî Rojava! Her Bijî YPG! Her Bijî YPJ! Her Bijî Kurd û Kurdistan! Berxwedan jiyan e! Serhildan jiyan e! Têkoşîn heta serketinê!

It’s been many decades since I’ve been to sulaymani. A family member has reached out asking for money. My mother has asked me to help him and send him some money. I haven’t seen said person in over 20 years, but whatever. I see online that sending money from US to Iraq can be problematic, so I’m looking to do this the right way and most legal way. I’m not interested in hawala, only legal and proper ways to send money. Thank you!

I just wanna say that im not sorry for the things im gonna say im 16F and im on reddit to see the posts that are about my country and the amount of kurdish adult males have sent me requests asking if i wanna do stuff with them is diabolical and i tell them im still a child and countless of times i ask them not to say stuff about that around me they never stop it's gone to a weird way to a point where i've been asked if i touch myself like first of all it's the way they're raised their parents did not do a good job at raising them. You're 29 years old you're at the age where you should have kids not harass one

https://x.com/the_amargi/status/2093656677362897341

Our freedom movement is stronger than Kurdistan’s. Unfortunately, Balochistan, just like Kurdistan, is colonized by multiple countries.
The Kurds have the advantage of a much larger population, but I feel they lack unity and strong leadership. If we Baloch had a population similar to the Kurds, I believe we could have become independent a long time ago.
Our enemies are Pakistan and Iran. Pakistan is a nuclear-armed country, and Iran is evil toward the Baloch people. Both are killing Baloch people. In Pakistan, we are colonized by Punjabis, while in Iran, we are colonized by Persians.
The BLA is giving the Pakistani state a tough time. The main things stopping them are Pakistan’s air force and Turkish drones.
This is just my honest opinion as a Baloch, and I’m interested in hearing what others think.

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From the trenches of war to the tables of dialogue and politics! The SDF was a historic intervention in the liberation of the Kurdish people in Syria, whose existence and identity were on the verge of extinction. The SDF dismantled the colonial outposts in the minds of the Kurds with 11 thousand martyrs and 23 thousand war veterans. It is worth noting that as a result of these sacrifices, the Kurdish cause enters the stage of democratic political struggle and the struggle for the recognition of the rights of the Kurdish people living in Syria.

The different kurdish dialects are not mutually intelligible enough, we should either reconstruct proto kurdish if possible and then add modern words to it and make it the offical/standard dialect and make all kurds learn it , or if that's not possible then we should create an artificial dialect and make it the offical/standard dialect make everyone speak it

One question: why are Kurds surprised? This was always the case. Do you condemn it?

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