In Syria, an oppressed people, without territorial continuity
Within the Kurdish ensemble, torn between four countries, the Syrian Kurdish population is distributed in three enclaves, devoid of strategic mountain reliefs, preventing any armed rebellion, but stimulating a cultural and identity fight. Fallen from their citizenship in 1962, discriminated against and victims of a policy of Arabization from 1967, the Kurds were politicized without success. On March 12, 2004, a historical rebellion broke out in Kamechliyé, in a context of strong Arab-Kurdish tensions, fueled by the American invasion of Iraq, in 2003. The Syrian Kurdish Party Pyd, linked to the Turkish PKK, then took off.