Yekiti Kurdish Party in Syria
( Amended and approved by the fifth conference )
December 2006
Introduction :
Most historical studies and archeological discoveries assure that Kurdish people is one of the oldest peoples in the East , and has shared in building the civilization of the region thruogh out the history , and has formed empires and kingdoms B . C , as " Midia kingdom" , and in the Islamic period many emrates and states appeared such as , " Dosteky state " , and "Kalas and Botan " emrates .
And because of Kurdistan 's vital political and geographical location , it became an area of conflict among states , and a junction for wars and conflicts that caused sufferings and unstability , and this affected negatively the Kurd's development , so that Kurdistan , and as a result of those conflicts , was divided between Ottoman and "Safawi" empires beginning from " Galdiran Battle " ( 1514 A.D ) and took a formal manner in " Qasr Shirin " treaty ( 1639 A.D ) and this made a structural distortion in the progress of the Kurdish nation and obstructed its growth and its political independent existence .
After the first world war , and the change of the international forces balance , and although "Siver " treaty in ( 1920 ) has assured the right of the Kurdish people to build his political entity according to a referendum for his inhabitants who were under the Ottoman rule , but the states that admitted this right in "Siver " treaty gave up the clauses which were related to Kurds in this treaty in "Lozan " conference (1923 ) , this coference which approved the division of the lands of the peoples who were under Ottoman colonialism , and redrawing the borders of the region , after the collapse of Ottoman empire in accordance with interests of the conqueror states in the war , so not Kurds nor their country were saved from Britain and France , because " Lozan Conference " admitted giving both Britain and France the right to dispose and rule a part of the Ottoman heritage , this caused the division of Kurdistan for the second time , and this division had been prepared before between the two states in Sykes - Picot treaty ( 1916 ) , and thus two parts of Kurdista were subjoined to two new-established states , the biggest part was subjoined to Iraq and the other to Syria or ( the union of Syria states ) under the French mandate , and because of that , Kurdistan became under the rule of four states in the region : Turkey , Iran , Iraq and Syria .
And as soon as , a part of Kurdistan became a part of Syria , the Kurds began to demand the French mandate authorities to give them their autonomy just like the other Syrian nations and states in that time ( "Al-Alawyeen" , "Dorouz" mountain , Aleppo and Damascus states ...etc .)and one of most important demands was included in a petition which many kurdish tribe leaders and some of well-known educated and literature men presented to the Syrian constituent assembly on 23of June in 1928 in Damascus , and this petition demanded the autonomy for the Kurds in Syria , and it included the following requests :
1- Using the Kurdish language in the Kurdish regions , and teaching it in schools .
2- Relacing the officers with Kurdish officers in the Kurdish regions .
3- Forming a Kurdih legion or army within the French army to protect the borders .
Although the constitution of the French mandate has admitted this right for Kurds , in its second item , but many factors - and the most important of them is the interests of the mandator states with Turkey ( which was controling the largest area of Kurdistan ) and which was rejecting the establishment of any Kurdish entity in Syria - had prevented the implementation of this item , and giving the Kurds their autonomy ,on the other hand , the division had linked the fate the Kurdish people with the fate of the Arab people and the other national minorities in the country after drawing new international borders without paying attention to the will of both peoples , so they didn't see a gataway of coexistence together , and they cohered together to repel the invasion and aggression since the days of Salah Al-Din .
And to confirm this cohesion both peoples have fought a combined resistance against the French occupation ( the Kurds had a major role in Al-Zawiya mount revolution which was led by Ibrahim Hanano , and Bayandour battle 1923 , and Amouda 1937 in Al-Jazeera region , and had an important role in Damascus and Al-Ghouta battles ) until the evacution was fulfiled in 1946 and the country entered a new phase of struggle , and to confirm the national independence , Kurdish people didn't hesitate ,out of the common destiny , in performing his national duities , so his sons gave examples of valiancy and resisting the aggression clinging to the interests of the country and the consolidation of the bases of his unity and his civilized development .
But the successive governments in Syria , and especially since the end of fifties until today ,
And particularly the Ba'ath regime , had ignored the reality of partnership in the country among Kurds ,Arabs and the national minorities , on the basis of chauvonistic tendencies , and Syria became ( the Arab republic ) and they explicitly renounced the exsistence of the Kurdish people as the second largest nation in the country , whose population rate is more than 15% of the total populations, and lives on his historical land which is a part of Kurdistan ,
And covers a wide area of about twenty thousand square kilometers ( Jazeera , Kobani , and Efrin ) , and there was an entire blackout on the patriotic role played by Kurdish people and his democratic national movement , which emerged organizedly in summer 1957 constituting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Syria , whose leaders and cadres faced puppet trials which produced unfair sentences expressing the nascent chauvinistic trend that attempted to abolish the existence of the Kurdish people and to prevent the emergence of the Kurdish case as a case of land and people , through discouraging our people from continuing their justful national struggle . And the successive regimes hasn't stopped by the denial of the existence of our Kurdish people and the punishing of his strugglers , but they practised a systematized chauvinistic policy purposing to distort the reality of the Kurdish people and abolish his existence , this policy which appeared in implementing a number of racial projects since the early sixties , beginning with the exceptional census project which took place exclusively in the povince of "Al -Hassake" ( the island ) " Al-Jazeera " on the fifth of October in 1962 in order to change the composition of population in the provice , which is characterized by an absolute Kurdish majority . Under this racial project , the Syrian nationality has been deprived from about 120 thousand Kurdish citizens in that time under unsubstantial pretexts far from the truth completely , and then the settlement Arab belt project which was begun in 1966 and its practice was carried out in the years 1973 -1974 - 1975 , on grounds of it , a belt of Arab settlement groups were established that were about 41 fourty one settlements along the Turkish-Syrian border in Al-Hassahe province in length of /270 / km and width between /10 / and /15 / km under the name of state farms , where large tracts of the most fertile agricultural land were deprived their Kurdish owners and given to the Arab settlers who were brought from Aleppo and " Raka " provinces , aiming to encircle our Kurdish people with Arab groups and to cut his human and geograpgical extending with Kurdistan ( in Turkey) which makes up with it a geographic and human unit , and also establishing Arab settlement insulations in other areas aimed at tearing the demographic structure in those areas . And there is a project that is being implemented aiming at the obliteration of the Kurdish presence , it is the project of Arabization of names of the Kurdish cities, villages and towns and even mountains and the archeological sites , and complicating the new born registeration in the province of "Al Hassake " , and the prohibition of speaking the Kurdish language , and maintaining of the state of entire deprivation of the Kurdish people from his democratic national rights , and all these as a whole means the obliteration of all the national monuments of Syrian Kurdistan , and concealing the Kurdish people and Arabizing him by force . And within the framework of this policy the regime carries out an undeclared economic war against our Kurdish people , in order to pauperize him to emigrate from his historical regions to the interior provinces to become marginal in the suburbs of cities or what is called the poverty belt around the big cities . And the proporation of migrants who has been displaced to the other provinces , Damascus ,Aleppo , etc is more than 20% of the general census of the Kurds , except those who are displaced to Lebanon and the european states .
And in the light of the historical facts and truths, and reality of partnership among Kurds, Arabs and the other national minorities in the country , and in view of the national suffering and oppression that the Kurdish people suffers in Syria , and the deprivation of the enjoyment of his basic national and democratic rights , and the unwillingness of the successive regimes to understand the Kurdish case , so it was necessary to have mass political organizations in order to defend the interests of the Kurdish people , and his legitimate national rights , and to reject the policy of discrimination and forced Arabization and melting , and our party Yekiti Kurdish Party in Syria , was found to be a reflective of the will of our Kurdish people in accordance with its own oint of view , and to play an active role in the struggle for liberation from the national oppression , and to take the national rights of our Kurdish people , and to lay the real foundations of the national unity , which is based on the recognition of the political and national multiplicity on bases of democratic and justful standards , to put the country on the right path of the democratic and civilized development .
And our party believes deeply in the dialogue and the democratic methods as a path to achieve its aims , and rejects all forms of violence , and in its daily activities the party depends on various forms of the peaceful mass struggle , such as : ( propaganda , instigation, protest , gathering , strike , demonstration ...etc.) , and derives its capabilities from the reliance on the enormous energies of the Kurdish people and his various social classes and groups in Syria , and our party follows the scientific methodology in his attitudes in dealing with issues of human and society ,and believes in the democracy as the best way to manage the communities , on the base of the following principles : The peaceful transfer of the power through ballot boxes ,freedom of the press, political multiplicity , and respecting the rights of individuals and the rights of national, religious , and sectarian groups , and the freedom of forming parties and unions , and other principles .
The identity of our party is determined clearly through a number of tasks at different levels of the struggle .
Party Functions
Programme Articles
Article One :
Party functions at the level of the kurdish movement in syria :
1- the party is working to lay the foundation of the democratic deal under the kurdish movement , and highlighting the democratic side in the struggle of this movement against chauvinistic policy.
2- Framing the energies and efforts of the kurdish parties , through the establishment of an effective framework of struggle on clear bases , whatever be the nomination of this framework front , coalition , gathering , political union .. .. .. etc ) so that to be eligible to represent the)
kurdish people a true representation and to end the state of weakness and division .
3- Work continuation towards achieving the unity among the parties who are politically and ideologically covergent.
4- working towards identifying clear national constants, to become a standard for assessing the role and directions of each faction , and the extent of its national credibility , and to prevent parties of the kurdish movement from slipping into bargaining positions, and abusing the kurdish and distorting its image .
5- Working to expose and condemn the bargaining and suspicious trends that work to degrade the respect of the kurdish people and distort the facts and the nature of the kurdish case , and in order to highlight the true national trends .
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Article Two:
The functions of the party at public level :
1- The adoption of vario methods of the peaceful mass mobilization such :( propaganda , incitement , protest , gathering , strike , demonstarting .. .. .. etc) . in order to mobilize the broadest sectors of the kurdish people in the face of the chauvinistic policy.
2- Working to attain the real leadership role of the masses through gaining their confidence , and interacting with their sufferings , and providing assistance and guidance to them , and training them to resort to the movement for assistance in solving their social problems as possible .
3- Working on establishing mass organizations and supporting them , and encouraging and supporting the activities of the youth in fielids of education , sports and arts , and working to raise the essence of cooperation among them .
4- Directing the economical agents in Syrian Kurdistan , and providing them with help and advice , to invest their capabilities and economical prospects in these areas , and encouraging them to engage in the industerial production , to ensure the stability in the Kurdish community , and the reduction of the phenomenon of migration , by providing job opportunities , and to get rid of the problem of one-sided production , and to offer the diversity of the production sources that will provide a kind of economical independence in the Kurdish areas .
5- Fighting the negative customs and social traditions that influence the development of the Kurdish society , and encouraging what is positive in his life .
6- Taking care of the culture and encouraging its various sources to raise the level of the social political and economic awareness , in order to help masses to overcome the phases of backwardness and ignorance in their life .
7- Taking care of the Kurdish culture and heritage , and publishing them widely .
8- Publishing the Kurdish alphabet widely , and organizing learning workshops for it - reading and writing - for all ages ,particlarly the young generation , to limit the problem of illiteracy in the Kurdih language , and to pave the way for the Kurdish language and culture to take their rightful place in the Kurdish community as a formal language and culture , and to reduce the harmful effects of chauvinistic tendencies in the Arab culture .
9- Supporting women in their quest for education at all levels , and the right to work and freedom of opinion , and the participation alongside men in the national democratic struggle, so that to achieve their equality with men , and to reject the mentality of underestimating their role and capabilities .
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Article Three :
The functions of the party towards the chauvinistic policy :
1- Exposing forms and objects of persecution against the Kurdish people and documenting it ( chronicle , decisions , dates , names .. ..etc) and publishing it widely , inside and abroad, to inform the popular public and national and official and global opinion the reality of the sufferings of the Kurdish people under the official chauvinistic policy of the state , in order to ensure an adequate pressing factors on the regime to force it to abandon the policy of persecution .
2- Exposing and fighting against the policy of arabization in Syria Kurdistan , and to urge the public to refrain the renewed Arabic nominations , and the adherence to the old Kurdish names of the Kurdish villages,towns and cities which are distinct milestones for the privacy of the Kurdish nationalism in these areas .
3- To condemn and expose Al Ba'athism policy exercised by the regime against our people .
4- Struggle to stop the policy of intentional negligence of economical and social development in the Kurdish areas , and to abolish the exceptional procedures , and providing supplies of the agricultural , industrial and service development , in order to offer job opportunities and the social stability , and lifting the pace of production to limit the migration phenomenon .
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Article Four :
Solving the Kurdish case justfully , according to the following :
1- The constitutional recognition of the Kurdish people as the second major nation in the country .
2- The best solution for the multi-national , religious and sectarian in Syria , should be based on a political and democratic decentralized system , consider the balance among all components of the Syrian society , and achieve the equitable distribution of the power and wealth .
3- Reconsider the current administrative divisions , to make the three Kurdish districts ( Al-Jazeera - Kobany - Efrin ) as one administrative region , and enable the Kurdish people to administer himself in his legislative , administrative and judicial affairs , in the framework of a parliamentary democratic system.
4- Recognition of the Kurdish language as the second official language in the country .
5- To have Kurd representatives in all executive , legislative and judiciary institutions of the state to reflect his proportion to the country's total population .
6- Abolishing the chauvinistic policies , the exceptional laws and the racism projects which are applied against the Kurdish people , and rectifing the abnormal statuses arising therefrom , and compensating those who were endamaged by those policies , especially the exceptional census in " Al-Hassake " province in 1962 , the settlementary belt and the policy of Arabization .
7- Determining a clear precentage of the state budget for the Kurdish administration taking into account its speciality and the extent of its contribution in the national production , and also taking into account the state of chronic negligence and the low level of service and backwardness in there .
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Article Five :
Party functions at the general national level :
1- To adopt the democratic dialogue principle in understanding the process of global, regional and national change .
2- Taking the principle of the national consensus as a base in establishing and formulating all issues and problems .
3- Ending all aspects of the state of security and its legitimate and political supports , as the one-party domination , martial laws and exceptional courts , and closing the file of political arrest completely , and to ensure the return of the exiles and the politicaly pursued , and to end all forms of political , religious and nationalistic persecution , compensating who were endamaged .
4- Recognizing the political and national multiplicity in the country ,and adoptting the proportional representation in achieving a democratic substitution .
5- Working for a new social contract among all nationalities and ethnicties in the Syrian society , to end the despotism and monopolizing the power and wealth and the mentality of excluding the other .
6- Establishing a democratic and political decentralized system depending on the people and its patriotic forces which admit and believe in changing .
7- Establishing a state of law that is based on institutions and founded on the democratic system and the principles of freedom and the supremacy of the people with ensuring the peaceful transfer of the power .
8- Ensuring the rule of the law and the seperation of the three powers ( legislative , executive and judicial ) and ensuring the authority of the judiciary and its independence .
9- Releasing the public democratic freedoms , and particularly the freedom of the political and the syndicalistic organizations , and the freedom of opinion and the press , and the freedom of demonstrating , sitting-in , protesting and strike . And the assurance of a modern law for parties and associations to organize the political life in the country , and a new law for media and the political and cultural publications .
10- To allow all the political , intelectual , cultural , social and economical trends and movements to exercise their activities and to express their opinions and beliefs , and enable them to practice their national role in the process of change and development .
11- Achieving the equality men and women , and ensuring women rights in accord with the principle of the secular state and the laws of the international community in this regard , and also considering and protecting the children's rights and ensuring full sponsorship for them .
12- Taking care of the youth and organizing their energies and capacities through paving the way widely for them to exercise their talents and their sporting , artistic , cultural , social and political activities .
13- Taking care of the cultural and educational institutions , and the civilian fields , and to revitalize the dialogue forums and the political and cultural meetings and encouraging them to lift and develop the social levels .
14- Separation of religion and state , and emphasizing the secularity of the state , and to respect all the religious beliefs and sects in the country and protecting them from any attack , and publishing the culture of tolerance, mutual respect and coexistence .
15- Forming a new compromising and modern constitution , based on democratic principles and establishs a democratic parliamentary system to achieve the rule of the law and promote the concept of state of law and institutions that is based on principles of freedom , the rule of people and the peaceful transfer of the power .And disappears in it the monopoly of power and the dominance on the political work or any other work . and this constitution protects the rights and ensures a full equality among individuals and all components of the Syrian society , and confirms the political and national multiplicity , and the recognition of the Kurdish people as an essential nation and the key partner , and the recognition of his democratic national rights .
16- Forming a new law for the general elections , ensures the just proportion for all
components of the syriain society .
17- Finding a special ministry that has divisions in all concerned provinces to take care of the matters of nations and national minorities .
18- Enhancing the role of unions and associations and chambers of the commerce , industry and agriculture and liberating them from the party or security dependency.
19- Provision the factors of the economic development , and following the market machinery and openness to the international markets and fighting the monopoly .
20- Withholding the party work from the army and preventing it for all parties , and enhancing
the army`s role in protecting the country and defending the people and the maintenance of the democratic system.
21- Unifying the security forces and ending their dominancy and restricting their role to protect
the homeland and the security of citizens and providing their security and stability factors .
22- Enhancing Syria's regional and global role in building the new cosmic system that establishes justice and peace , and enhance the role of united nations that ensures human rights and peoples' right to self-determination , and achieving the international mutual interests , and adhering to the international convenant and charters in this regard , and fighting against terrorism and extremism .
23- Restoration of the occupied Syrian lands and working for the prevalence of the peace
in the area in accordance with the international legitimacy decisions .
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Article Six :
Functions of party at the leve of soloing issues of minorities :
1- Forming a new ministry has divisions in concerned provinces to take care of the matter
of the religious and national minorities and their cultural , educational and teaching affairs .
2- Authorizing publishing newspapers in the national languages of minorities (political , cultural , literary .. etc .).
3- Specalizing a part of the mass media in the country for the national languages of the minorities and allowing them to issue their own television and radio stations .
4- Authorizing to found associations , and cultural clubs and parties contributing in enriching the public life in its political,cultural and social phases .
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Article Seven :
Party functions at the public national level :
If the party struggles in the Syrian framwork , to carry , in addition to its national duties towards the Kurdish people in Syria , patriotic duties at the Syrian patriotic level , and meets the other national forces in the community on this level , this does not negate and oppose the fact that the party is a part of Kurdistan liberation movement , because it affects and is affected by the Kurdistan situation and shares the Kurdistan liberation movement the national liberation problems , this what imposes mutual tasks for the Kurdistan movement factions towards each other . From this point of view , our party bears national tasks towards the Kurdistan liberation movement and the Kurdish case in general , and these tasks are :
1- Supporting the struggles of the Kurdish people and his liberation movement in all parts of Kurdistan against the injustices and the policies of repression and terrorism and war , which is exercised by the regimes that persecute the Kurdish people , and in their quest to get their right of self-determination according to the specialty of each part .
2- Supporting the federal experience in Iraq Kurdistan as a historical gain for the Kurdish people , and to stabilize its structure and consider it as a model emulated in the area to solve the national matters .
3- Working for a mutual national representation ( Kurdistan conference , a national coordination body .. .. ..) , in which all Kurdistan parties from all parts of Kurdistan participate , for playing a role to unify the Kurdistan movement efforts in addressing the international public opinion at the official and popular levels , in order to solve the Kurdish case a comprehensive solution , responding the requirements of attaining quietness and stability in the region , and assuring a reasonable level of solidarity among the forces of the Kurdistan liberation movement , and to play the key role in solving the Kurdish -Kurdish dissensions .
4- To work in order to establish the democratic fraternal deal among all kurdistan forces
on the base of mutual respect and denying the policy of pivots , dependency , guardianship
and interfering in the affairs of each other , and one - party policy , and the monopolizing
of the area and to condemn and forbid the kurdish- kurdish fighting whatever be its
motives and reasons .
5- Supporting the legitimate struggles of the kurds in Lebanon , kafkas republics and middle
Assia that aimed to lift the oppression and discrimination against them , and to obtain their
stability and their national and rightful rights on basis of brotherhood and matual respect
with the people that coexist with them .
6- Interest in affairs of the kurdish communities in immigrants.
7- Participating in the endeavors and efforts aimed to integrate the kurdish case in the various international circles and the bodies of the united nations , to find a just solution for it serving the stability and security in the region and the world .
Article eight :
General principles :
1-The party supports the efforts of peoples of the region for liberty , democracy and respecting human rights , and fighting against backwardness .
2- The party supports the struggles of peoples that face military and dictatorial regimes , and their quest for democratic freedoms .
3- The party supports the struggles of all peoples and nations in their quest for national liberty and building their national entities .
4- The party offers its solidarity to all peace and democracy forces and the human rights organizations in their quest for the consolidation of the world peace , and the limitation of war and exploitation , and respecting human rights , and facing the repressive , dictatorial and reactionary regimes .
5- The party supports the dialogue and negotiation in solving dissensions in all over the world on basis of the united nations charters .
6- The party supports the efforts that aimed to end the apartheid and fighting against ignorance , hunger , poverty and disease at the global level because of their increasingly vital importance , and because they are the most noble human mission , and doing it is a service
for the development and for the values of human civilization .
7- The party supports the efforts that aimed at fighting the pollution and taking care of the environmental affairs at local , regional and global levels as being a human mission that is related to each individual or group on earth .
8- The party supports all efforts exerting to eliminate mass destruction weapons , and the prohibition of their production to avoid their risks .
9- The party supports the international efforts aimed at fighting terrorism and violence in all their forms .
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December 2006
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