Kedo: KNC had great opportunities, but did not promote to responsibility level

The Secretary of the Kurdish Democratic Left Party in Syria and Member of the Kurdistan National Congress - Rojava, Saleh Kedo, came during a lecture organized by the Kurdistan National Congress - Rojava today in the Zana Hall in Qamishlo.

The lecture was organized under the title "The Kurdish Movement between Failures of the Past and the Entitlements of the Present", with the participation of approximately 150 Kurdish political figures.

This lecture comes on the occasion of the 70^th anniversary of the death of Prince Geladat Badrkhan, and the 65^th anniversary of the founding of the first Kurdish political organization in Syria.

At the beginning of his lecture, Saleh Kedo dealt with the first stage of the establishment of the first Kurdish party in Kurdistan, saying, "In response to the public need for a Kurdish political organization that brings together the Syrian Kurds in one struggle block, like the rest of Kurdistan, especially in North Kurdistan which used to witness successive revolutions against the usurping regimes, these revolutions formed a catalyst and impetus for a group of young strugglers to found the party in 1957, namely Osman Sabri, Hamid Hajj Darwish, Rashid Hamo, Hamza Noiran, Mohamed Ali Khoja, Shawkat Hanan, Khalil Mohamed and Sheikh Mohamed Issa, and then Dr. Nour Eddin Zaza who assumed the presidency of the party joined them."

Kedo said that in 1960, most of the party's leaders were arrested and imprisoned in Mezzeh, and this incident was the beginning of the emergence of disputes among the leadership, which ended with the emergence of the Kurdish left in a conference in 1965.

Kedo believed that these differences were described as intellectual differences, but "in my estimation, this description of the differences is inaccurate, but the differences were overwhelmed by the character of personalities and loyalties to rival Kurdish parties, so to speak."

Kedo pointed to the second stage from 1965 to 1970, and said, "At this stage, a conference called the National Conference was held in Nawbardan, and the two parties were merged into a unified organization called the "Party" Kurdish Democratic Party."

He continued, "Unfortunately, the unitary process lasted only a few months, and the situation returned to before the unification conference with the establishment of a third organization named the leadership of the stage which was founded with the support of the leadership of the Kurdish revolution at the time, and the new third organization became a branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iraq and inside Rojava.".

In addition, Saleh Kedo touched on the post-Syrian revolution in 2011, and said, "The Kurdish movement in Syria realized the importance and accuracy of this stage and the necessity of participating in the popular movement or the Syrian revolution with forms that fit the privacy of the Kurdish region and protect the interests and aspirations of the Kurdish people."

In this regard, he added, "At the end of October of 2011, after four months of intense dialogues with the participation of the Democratic Union Party, the Kurdish movement took the initiative to gather various parties and community activities and announce the establishment of the Kurdish National Council without being able to accommodate the demands of the brothers in the Democratic Union Party."

Kedo stressed that "there is no doubt that the Kurdish National Council has had great opportunities in 2011, 2012 and 2013 to be a platform that leads the Syrian Kurdish popular movement to reach its national ambition and obtain its rights for which it has struggled for decades, but unfortunately the Kurdish National Council did not rise to the level of the due national responsibility for various reasons and factors, the most prominent of which was the confiscation of the Syrian Kurdish decision by various Kurdish leaders and the reluctance of some parties to establish foreign relations with parties that were and are still working on using the Kurdish card to serve agendas that conflict with the interests of the Kurdish people in Syria."

He went on saying, "For more than a year, the National Unity Parties and the Kurdish National Council have been engaged in a Kurdish-Kurdish dialogue, and the two parties reached some achievements through it, such as consensus on the political vision, and reaching the mechanism and form of establishing the Kurdish reference. In addition to that, the two delegations of dialogue discussed how to join or participate in the Kurdish National Council in the Autonomous Administration of all its institutions, but unfortunately the dialogue stopped at this point on the part of the National Council, due to the occurrence of some acts of sabotage against the offices of the Council, which took the initiative to suspend the dialogue unilaterally, and submitted some requests to the American sponsor and the Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces Mazloum Abdi."

After this, discussions took place on the history of the Kurdish political movement since the founding of the first Kurdish party, and on the necessity of uniting the Kurdish ranks.

According to a member of the administrative body of the Kurdistan National Congress - Rojava, Marwan Hassen, although an invitation card was sent to members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Syria and the Kurdish National Council, they did not accept the invitation.

It is worth noting that on July 8, the Rojava-Kurdistan National Congress held, under the slogan (With National Unity, We Defeat the Occupation, and Block the Way to Infighting), a dialogue forum related to the dangers of the Turkish occupation on historic Kurdistan, and what is required of Kurds at this stage.

The dialogue forum resulted in a number of proposals, including the formation of a committee consisting of 7 people, to communicate the results of the forum to all Kurdish forces and parties.

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ANHA