ASSAD WILL SQUAWK BUT ERDOGAN WILL GO BALLISTIC: Kurds to declare federal state northern Syria despite challenges.

On Wednesday, 200 delegates from parties and organizations from Syria held a conference in the oil-rich town of Rumelan in Hasakah province to discuss the establishment of a federal political system in Kurdish areas of Syria, also known as Rojava.

The meeting, titled ‘federal Syria is a guarantee for a common life and brotherhood of nations’, included Kurdish, Arab, Christian and Armenian delegates.

Speaking to ARA News, Idris Nassan, a Kurdish official from the local administration in Kobane, said that federalism is one of the key demands of Kurds in Syria.

George W. Bush should have made an Independent Iraqi Kurdistan the price for Turkish intransigence during the buildup to the Iraq War. Now things are even more complicated, and some Kurd groups have started leaning towards Putin, who unlike us doesn’t have to try and keep Ankara happy.