Mazloum Abdi

... possibly explain why they're allowing these demonstrations to unfold.

And interestingly, you know, as this has been happening, we've seen the Kurdish leader, um, Mazloum Abdi, I guess we can say that he's the main sort of Kurdish now political figure, used to be military figure, sort of, um, not even there.

He's...

It was in Erbil, uh, at some conference, you know, um, and not really addressing the issue beyond saying, you know, all is fine and sort of, you know, um, putting a rather a positive spin on things.

This is a way to sort of counter pressure on the local scale, uh, the government, but overall, you know, the, uh, the real balance of power is on Damascus' side.

And so, um, in parallel of course, there's this whole debate about language and we heard Ilham Ahmed, another prominent figure in the, on the Kurdish side, um, talk about this in Erbil actually.

She was at the same forum as, as Mazloum Abdi and saying, you know, this matter has b- by no means been resolved despite the fact that the government came up with these arrangements whereby, uh, kids would get three hours of Kurdish language instruction and a bit more than that.

As I explained in my article, if you go to our website, you can read about that in detail and also on...

Almost eighteen months after seizing power, the Sharar government in Syria has agreed to a deal integrating the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces into the Syrian state.

Mazloum Kobane, the commander of the SDF, will now serve as an advisor to the president, a position that does not necessarily come with any power.

Trump quickly hailed the announcement.

The Turkish government also see this as a clear victory.