Meghan Bodette

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Meghan Bodette

@_____mjb

Director of Research @KurdishPeaceOrg

DC - Slemani - Qamishlo Katılım Ocak 2018
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Nadine Maenza@nadinemaenza·
As integration of NE Syria continues, the U.S. and intl community must ensure the January 29 agreement is upheld — including religious and ethnic minorities, and women, in local governance and security. Glad to co-author this report with @_____mjb and Ghassan Bazo documenting DAANES’ inclusive governance model and growing concerns that minorities and women are not yet included in the integration process as promised. For instance, in the Jazira Region (Hasakah), the local People’s Council included 57 Kurds, 24 Arabs, 17 Syriacs, 1 Armenian, 1 Chechen, and 1 Yezidi — with half of all representatives being women. We encourage the Syrian government to preserve this diversity as integration continues. kurdishpeace.org/research/confl…
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The younger generation doesn't remember a time when Syrian Kurds weren't the protagonists of the regional Kurdish struggle. They became politicized watching people from Diyarbakir, Erbil, Mahabad, and even Europe run *towards* a brutal war to come fight for them.
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The older generation became politicized at a time when no one believed Syrian Kurds could be the protagonists of the regional Kurdish struggle. They thought Turkey or Iraq would have to go first. People literally used to call Rojava 'Başurê Biçuk' -- 'Small South Kurdistan.'
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@sfrantzman + The president should not be allowed to appoint any members of parliament at all. That's an unacceptable concentration of power for a democratic system and post-war conditions don't justify it.
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Meghan Bodette@_____mjb·
@sfrantzman 1) Larger electorate! If size must be limited, then random sample, not gov't picks 2) Let candidates nominate themselves, no need for gov't approval if they meet basic standards 3) Allow parties (still technically illegal in Syria, Kurdish parties just refuse to dissolve)
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? PYD attempted multi-party local elections in 2024 and were forced to stop by US pressure and threats of a Turkish invasion. And they actually are taking part in the *state,* which makes this boycott all the more difficult to understand.
Seth Frantzman@sfrantzman

Was the theory of the boycotters that if they can’t control everything then they won’t participate? Basically “unless we can have a one party state and no elections ever, then no state at all”…? Nothing prevented DAANES from having multiple political parties over the last decade or local elections. I’ll never understand the huge sacrifices that went into all this without the decision to build lasting institutions with wide participation of people. It does seem like the end result will let down those who did support it. We’ll see

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There's an open lane for these KNC MPs to become proactive Kurdish nationalists. Think 1990s HEP: speak Kurdish and make them stop you, stand with Kurdish victims of state violence, etc. But will they fill it?
Sol@sol_0_4

@_____mjb Maybe Fasla will make some principled efforts but yeah, the rest don’t really seem to have any significance.

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@sfrantzman And again, you're not aknowledging that they are participating in the state and that what the government organized isn't a free and fair election.
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Meghan Bodette@_____mjb·
@sfrantzman There were local elections in late 2017. A parliamentary election was planned, but then the Afrin invasion happened. There were others before that. And multiple Kurdish parties were always active inside and outside of the admin (these chose to boycott too).
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Political appointments have gone to PYD/YPG figures, YPG has joined the army, and administrative employees of the DAANES are integrating -- that's all joining the state. This selection process for the parliament is the only thing they have sat out.
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This election shows what a small group of predominantly men over age 40 who were chosen by the government think about each other. That isn't really representative of the views of any community or party at all.
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Meghan Bodette@_____mjb·
Look at the facts: PYD (+ other Kurdish parties aside from KNC) boycotted, many candidates didn't represent parties at all, and the voting pool was a tiny fraction of the population selected by the government. So, this reveals virtually nothing about overall party preference.
Seth Frantzman@sfrantzman

What is the possible conclusion? Is it possible that the SDF-DAANES-PYD-YPG-TEV-DEM was not as popular as it seemed? Since there were no multi-party elections before it was impossible to know, DAANES was essentially a one party statelet and any other groups were pushed aside (such as ENKS, KNC); Now that people have a slight semblance of choice they will support other groups?

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Meghan Bodette@_____mjb·
5 Kurds and 6 Arabs will represent Hasakah, Kobane, Qamishlo and Derik in the Syrian parliament. + 3 Kurds elected in Afrin means Kurds hold just 8 seats (before presidential appointments). Syriac-Assyrian, Armenians and Yezidis in former DAANES territory got no seats at all.
Channel 8 Kurmancî@Ch8Kurmanci

Li navçeyên Hesekê, Qamişlo, Dêrik û Kobaniyê hilbijartinên Meclisa Gel a Sûriyeyê birêve çûn 🗳️ Di wan hilbijartinan de 5 kesên Kurd û 6 kesên Ereb hatin hilbijartin ⭕️ Biryar e di rojên pêş de Ehmed Şer’i 5 kesên din destnîşan bike. channel8.com/kurmanci/news/…

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Liam 🇵🇸@Hezbolsonaro·
@_____mjb I assume there are no PYD affiliates among these approved members?
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Only one woman -- a Kurdish ENKS candidate -- will go to parliament to represent northeast Syria, out of eight seats across Qamishlo, Hasakah and Kobane. Under the DAANES, women made up no less than 40% of deliberative bodies by law. What a loss.
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