Mustafa Kayyali

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Dr. Mustafa Kayyali

Mustafa Kayyali (old. Moustafa Kayali, Arabic مصطفى الكيالي, DMG Muṣṭafā al-Kaiyālī ; * 1962 in Aleppo ) is a Syrian dentist and political and civil society activist.

life and career

Kayyali is the son of judge Kanju Kayyali and grandson of Syrian independence politician Abd al-Rahman al-Kayyali . He comes from a family of notables with roots in Idlib and Aleppo. Kayyali studied dentistry at Aleppo University and graduated in 1985. In 2007, he joined a movement that emerged from the Damascus Declaration for Political Change in Syria . Other prominent figures in the movement were the entrepreneur Riad Seif and the intellectual Riad al-Turk . With the beginning of the protests in Syria in 2011, their suppression later in the Syrian civil warKayyali emerged as a reform activist more strongly. According to a report in the newspaper Die Welt , a brother of Kayyali's was killed by forces loyal to the regime at the beginning of the protests in Aleppo.

At a conference hosted by the Brookings Center in Doha in June 2011, Kayyali called for the establishment of a non-partisan "national body for political transition" in Syria, involving all communities and ethnic groups in Syria.

In 2012 Kayyali and a group of influential Syrian personalities founded the National Bloc , a non-partisan political movement from the time of the Syrian struggle for independence against the French mandate , in which his grandfather Abd al-Rahman al-Kayyali (1887-1969) played a leading role would have. Kayyali represented the organization u. a. at one of the first coordination meetings between Syrian opposition groups, which took place in May 2012 in Pravets near Sofia under the leadership of the Bulgarian Foreign Minister at the time, Nikolaj Mladenow . In 2013, Kayyali took part in various meetings and conferences with the aim of overcoming differences between Kurdish and Arab opposition groups and strengthening the influence of secular forces.

In January 2018 it was announced that Kayyali several months of secret negotiations between representatives of different Syrian ethnic groups from exile and from the Syrian Assad controlled regime domestically, including Alawites took part. The central result of the talks was the adoption of a "Code of Conduct for Coexiscence in Syria", which is to serve as the basis for a new social contract. Die Welt called the document a "Charter of Peace" and a "Treaty of Reconciliation" for Syria. Kayyali is also considered to be the co-founder of a civil society council made up of Syrian leaders, which emerged from the initiative and has set itself the task of implementing the charter.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Brookings Institution: Syria's Uprising: What comes next? June 27, 2011, accessed February 13, 2020 .
  2. ^ Daniel-Dylan Böhmer: Syria: A Reconciliation Treaty for the Civil War Country . In: THE WORLD . January 28, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed February 12, 2020]).
  3. ^ National Democratic Block. Retrieved February 12, 2020 (UK English).
  4. ↑ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): "We can no longer stand by and watch" | DW | 05/31/2012. Retrieved on February 12, 2020 (German).
  5. ^ Mohammad Ballout: Syrian Opposition Attempts Consolidation. May 11, 2013, accessed February 12, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Confidential Sunni-Alawite meeting in Berlin Summarized in Eleven-Item Document. In: The Syrian Observer. January 22, 2018, accessed February 12, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Christoph Ehrhardt, Rome: Silent crowd: Syrians should show their colors . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed February 12, 2020]).
  8. ^ Daniel-Dylan Böhmer: Peace Charter: The new Syria is being built in Berlin . In: THE WORLD . March 20, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed February 12, 2020]).
  9. ^ Daniel-Dylan Böhmer: Syria: A Reconciliation Treaty for the Civil War Country . In: THE WORLD . January 28, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed February 12, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Peace for Syria: Secret Mission Reconciliation. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kayyali, Mustafa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kayali, Moustafa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian dentist and political and civil society activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Aleppo