Dohuk Agreement

The „Democratic Union“ and the „National Council“ have been trying since 2012 to start power-sharing negotiations. They have concluded several previous agreements, namely „Hawler 1“, „Hawler 2“ and „Duhok“. However, all these agreements have failed. Among the first discussions of the Kurdish-Kurdish dialogue since November 2019 has been the removal of legal obstacles to the „Kurdish National Council“, which agrees with Ankara in the areas controlled by the „SDF“ to open its organizational and party offices and carry out its political, media and social activities, without the need to first obtain security clearances. In addition, all obstacles to the restoration of trust between all political and administrative actors in the areas of influence of the autonomous administration should be removed. Like all countries that have intervened in one way or another in Syrian affairs, both countries have goals behind their focus on the success of the Kurdish-Kurdish agreement and there are advantages they want to achieve. However, US support for dialogue reassures Turkey to some extent. Ankara could be one of the most successful parties if the agreement sought by the „Kurdish National Council“ is successful, the latter being a member of the „coalition“ allied to Turkey. In addition, Youssef believes that the agreement between the Kurdish parties will strengthen the role of the Kurdish nation on many levels and put an end to the differences that prevailed in the previous phase. It will also positively defend civilians and protect them from „terrorism“ or any party that wants to harm them until a political solution to the Syrian crisis is found.

On 16 June, the two sides announced in a joint statement that they would form the Kurdish political bloc and unite the armed Kurdish militias in the Syrian Jazeera. The agreement was concluded in accordance with the Duhok Agreement, signed in 2014 between the Kurdish parties. With the unification of militias in the northern region, the agreement paves the way for one of two things: the first is a separatist project including the Syrian Jazeera, also known as Western Kurdistan. The second is to lay the foundations for a federal reality on an ethnic basis throughout the northern region of Syria, like the situation in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Dohuk agreement provides for the formation of a Kurdish political bloc where the representation of the democratic society movement is 40%, while the Kurdish National Council is also 40%, while other Kurdish parties and forces that do not participate in the two political bodies will have 20%. The formation of a new government in the region, based on a Kurdish-Kurdish agreement and then a Kurdish-Arab agreement, could transform the new model emerging in northeastern Syria into a reality that affects the Syrian arena. The regime will not be able to ignore, Darwish said. They stressed that the agreement „Governance and Partnership in Administration, Protection and Defence“ (Dohuk 2014) forms the basis for the continuation of the ongoing dialogue in order to reach a comprehensive agreement in the near future. The agreement provided for coordination between the municipal administration and field research as well as the abolition of the carrying of weapons in cities and was in line with the Geneva 1 talks.

An agreement by AMERICAN pressure, according to a reliable source, described the announcement made a few days ago between the autonomy of the north of the Syrian and the Kurdish National Council. According to baladi News Network, the analyst believes that what is in the agreement does not correspond to the concept of national unity and that it creates unilateral national control that paves the way for secession. With the advent of the „Islamic State“ in mid-2014 and its control of the territories in Syria and Iraq, the modification of the political map in Syria and the attacks of the Islamic State against Ayn Al-Arab (Kubani), a new agreement, represented in the „Dohuk“ agreement, was a development of the previous form. . . .