Conflicts With Kurdish Population in Neighboring Countries Make Politics Highly Unstable

In Syria’s war, long-repressed minority finds new freedom

The Christian Science Monitor

Of the changes triggered by Syria’s 19-month-old uprising, few have been as sudden as the seeming empowerment of the country’s long-oppressed Kurdish minority. In what was once the headquarters of Syria’s ruling Baath Party in the town of Afrin, a Kurdish-populated town of about 60,000 in northwest. | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles