Maschaal Tammo

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Maschaal al Tammo (also Mish'al at-Tammu; Arabic مشعل تمو; Kurmanji : Mişel Temo ; * 1957 ; † October 7, 2011 in Qamishli ) was a Kurdish politician in Syria .

Career

Maschaal al Tammo lived as an agricultural engineer in Qamishli. He initially worked for 20 years in the party of the Kurdish People's Union led by Salah Bedreddin, where he took on leading positions. In 1999 he left to found the "Civil Society Restoration Committee"; he also organized the " Bedirxan Culture Forum" in Qamishli. Building on these structures, he founded the "Kurdish Future Movement" in May 2005. Unlike most of the Kurdish parties in Syria, they do not seek regional autonomy, but rather recognition of the Kurds as a nation that supports the state and equal participation in a democratic Syrian government. She demands the overthrow of the Baathist regime and refuses to negotiate with him. Tammo was committed to joint action with Arab opposition members and took part in the founding of the Syrian National Council (SNC) .

Political persecution and assassination

In 2008, Tammo was arrested in the city of Ain al-Arab and charged with trying to provoke a civil war. On May 11, 2009, he was sentenced to three years in prison and released on June 2, 2011 due to an amnesty. On September 8, 2011, he was murdered for the first time in Qamishli, for which he blamed the regime. On October 7, 2011, he was shot dead by plainclothes gunmen at a friend's house in Qamishli just before he was about to leave the country. Tammo's son Marsel and the present opposition politician Zahida Raschkilo were also injured by the perpetrators. This stated in an interview that she and Tammo had been threatened by the PYD before the crime .

At least 50,000 people were present at Tammo's funeral in Qamishli, security forces fired into the crowd and killed five people. The opposition LCC interpreted the assassination of Tammo as a sign of a change of strategy by the regime, which no longer shrinks from direct assassinations against political opponents.

The Al-Arabiya television station published documents in October 2012 according to which Bashar al-Assad had personally ordered the murder and commissioned the air force intelligence service to carry it out in order to move the "Turkish government into a neutral and cooperative position". Official Syrian sources blamed “armed terrorists” and the “international conspiracy against Syria” for the crime. Other Syrian Kurdish politicians accused the PYD of being involved in the act. They accused Turkey.

The assassination led to protests in many countries around the world and diplomatic interventions by the US and the EU. A military unit of the Syrian insurgents is called the Mishʿal-at-Tammu Brigade.

Tammo left a wife and six sons.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurdish Movements in Syria, Orsam Ankara, August 2012, p. 23, PDF ( Memento from April 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Carnegie Middle East Center, The Kurdish Future Movement
  3. ^ DLF, September 24, 2005
  4. ↑ Aron Lund, Divided They Stand. An Overview of Syria's Political Opposition Factions, Olof Palme International Center, Uppsala 2012, p. 69, PDF ( Memento from September 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Aili Piano: Freedom in the World 2009: The Annual Survey of Political Rights & Civil Liberties . Rowman & Littlefield, September 30, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4422-0122-4 , pp. 698-.
  6. ↑ Kurdwatch, June 3, 2011
  7. ↑ Kurdwatch, September 10, 2011
  8. ↑ Kurdwatch, June 15, 2012, interview with the eyewitness Zahida Raschkilo
  9. ^ The Guardian, Oct. 8, 2011
  10. ^ New York Times, October 8, 2011
  11. ↑ Al-Arabiya engl., October 10, 2012 ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / english.alarabiya.net
  12. ↑ a b Syria Online, official site, undated ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.syriaonline.sy
  13. ^ Henry Jackson Society, The Decisive Minority, The Role of Syrian Kurds, March 2012, p. 12, PDF
  14. ↑ Nick Brauns, Junge Welt, February 3, 2012
  15. ↑ Syria: Killing of an opposition activist mobilizes Kurds . May 22, 2015. Accessed November 30, 2015.
  16. ↑ Kurdwatch, interview with Usama Sulaiman Mansur Hilali, March 26, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Tammo, Maschaal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mish'al at-Tammu, Mişel Temo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 2011
Place of death Qamishli