(11 Mar 2025)
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Qamishli – 11 March 2025
1. Syrians gathered on streets in Qamishli chanting (Arabic):” One, one, one – Syrian people are one”
2. Various of people raising flags of Syria, PKK, and posters of Abdulla Ocalan
3. Cars honking and carrying flags of SDF and Ocalan posters
4. People dancing on street in the city
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Majdal Hamza, Arab citizen from Qamishli countryside:
“We congratulate the Syrian revolution, in which brought together all sects. We want to end the bloodshed. The whole people are happy, and they are all one hand; Kurds, Christians, Assyrians, and all other sects. We are all brothers in one country. We seek freedom and this is it."
6. Various of people celebrating and raising flags of PKK, Kurdistan with posters of Ocalan
7. Various of people celebrating at the main roundabout in Qamishli
8. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Malak Ibrahim, displaced from Afrin, living in Qamishli:
“We are the people from Afrin and it has been eight years that we became displaced. Hopefully after this blessing announcement, the injustice will end, so we all can go back to our houses in Afrin and Ras al Ain. I congratulate this happiness from all the people in Afrin, Ras al Ain, and Tal Abyad, and from the entire Kurdish nation.”
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Qamishli – 10 March 2025
9. People entering café in the city
10. Various of people playing backgammon in café
11. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Mohammed Mohammed, former lecturer at Damascus University:
“The most important part of this agreement is the first article, which says clearly to end the bloodshed. So, people can return to their homes and go in – out Damascus. We hope to achieve and have better things for us, the Kurds. I mean we are looking for the Syrian state’s recognition of the Kurds. So, when we go around, we can say that we are Kurds and that we are existing here.”
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Qamishli – 11 March 2025
12. People raising posters of Mazlum Abdi with flags of the Kurdistan region
13. People raising the new Syrian flag while driving
14. Cars driving in Qamishli
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of Syrian Kurds came out to the streets of Qamishli to celebrate the announcement of a deal between the Syrian democratic Forces SDF and the ruling authority in Damascus.
Celebrating people chanted unity slogans such as “One, one, one – Syrian people are one” while raising Syrian, PKK, and SDF flags.
Others carried posters of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan along with Mazloum Abdi, commander in chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces.
Syria’s interim government signed a deal Monday with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s northeast, including a ceasefire and the merging of the main U.S.-backed force there into the Syrian army.
The deal is a major breakthrough that would bring most of Syria under the control of the government, which is led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham that led the ouster of President Bashar Assad in December.
The deal was signed by interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa and Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
The deal to be implemented by the end of the year would bring all border crossings with Iraq and Turkey, airports and oil fields in the northeast under the central government’s control. Prisons where about 9,000 suspected members of the Islamic State group are also expected to come under government control.
Syria’s Kurds will gain their “constitutional rights” including using and teaching their language, which were banned for decades under Assad.
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