
Radio War Nerd EP 358 — Syria War Update, feat. Joshua Landis
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Kurdish Kurds in Syria and the Assad Regime
I think they will end up doing that it's exactly what will happen is for the Kurds living under Damascus is much better than living under Turkish rule because the Turks will ethnically cleanse them Syria and the Assad regime is essentially a minoritarian regime it depends on Syria's minorities a great deal. The top military leadership is security leadership is largely Alawite Christian Druze other religious minorities who fearful that should the Sunni Arab forces conquered Damascus could be ethnically cleansed or driven into the margins of Syrian society. I do believe that the Kurds will have to come and make a deal with Assad right now in order to get their own autonomous region which would be policed and patrolled by their own
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