Salih Muslim

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Salih Muslim Mohammed in Berlin 2014

Salih Muslim Mohammed ( Arabic صالح مسلم محمد, DMG Ṣāliḥ Muslim Muḥammad ; * 1951 in a nomad camp near Ain al-Arab , Aleppo governorate ) is a Kurdish-Syrian politician and was co-chairman of the Kurdish party PYD in Syria from 2010 to 2017 . He is also deputy coordinator of the National Coordinating Committee for Democratic Change .

Life

Muslim was born near Ain al-Arab (Kobanê) in 1951. He spent his childhood in the village of Shiran. In the 1970s he studied chemical engineering at Istanbul Technical University and graduated in 1977. During his studies he was politically influenced by Mustafa Barzani's Kurdish revolution in Iraq during the so-called Second Kurdish War . After graduating, he began working as an engineer in Saudi Arabia and returned to Syria in the 1990s.

In 1998, Muslim decided to join the Kurdistan-Syria Democratic Party . Disappointed about the low level of effectiveness of the DPK in Syria, he decided in 2003 to join the PYD, which was founded by a decision of the PKK in the same year. He has been detained multiple times without charge and has been tortured in custody. After he and his wife were imprisoned for political work in Syria, he fled further political persecution to a PYD camp in northern Iraq. He has been chairman of the party since 2010. With the beginning of the revolution in Syria, he returned to Syria in March 2011. Muslim is also a member of the High Kurdish Committee , a commission for the self-government of the Kurdish areas in Syria.

Muslim is married and has five children, four sons and one daughter. Muslim's sons are fighters in the People's Defense Units (YPG). His youngest son Şervan Muslim was killed on October 9, 2013 by an Islamic State sniper in Iraq and the Levant near Tall Abyad .

He describes the current situation in Syria and the future of the Kurds in Syria as follows:

“It is the beginning of the spread of authority of the Kurdish people over their own territories. We believe that the Kurdish demands must be met within the Syrian borders and that any solution to the Kurdish question should preserve the unity of Syria. "

- Salih Muslim

In connection with the bomb attack in Ankara on February 17, 2016 , a Turkish arrest warrant was issued against Muslim in mid-November 2016. A few years ago, Turkey held talks with the PYD and received Muslims in Ankara several times. It now regards the PYD as identical to the PKK and has classified the PYD as a terrorist organization. Muslim, on the other hand, emphasizes that the PKK and the PYD are two separate organizations that only ideologically represent the same idea.

On February 12, 2018, he was placed on the terror list of the Turkish government under Erdogan during the Turkish military offensive on Afrin . A reward of 4 million Turkish lira was offered for clues about his whereabouts. He was arrested in Prague on February 25, 2018 and released two days later on a court order.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Saleh Muslim Mohammed . Carnegie Middle East Center. Retrieved July 26, 2012.
  2. ↑ Kurê Salih Muslim di şerê çekdarên îslamî yên radîkal de jiyana xwe ji least da In: Rûdaw. Retrieved October 10, 2013
  3. ↑ Syrian Kurdish Leader Urges Turkey to End Support for Salafists ( Memento from October 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Al-Monitor. Retrieved October 10, 2013
  4. ↑ | title = PYD Leader Denies Turkish Claims rudaw.net
  5. ↑ Turkey issues arrest warrant for the Syrian-Kurdish party leader In: www.euronews.com of November 22, 2016
  6. ↑ "The Syrian regime never seriously fought against IS" In: Der Tagesspiegel of November 7, 2016
  7. ↑ Former PYD leader Salih Muslim, pro-Assad group leader Mihraç Ural added to Turkey's 'wanted terrorists' list
  8. ^ Till Janzer: Former head of the Syrian Kurdish party PYD arrested in Prague. Český rozhlas , February 25, 2018, accessed on February 26, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Turkey criticizes the release of Kurdish politician zeit.de from February 27, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Muslim, Salih
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muslim Muhammed, Salih; Muslim Mohammed, Salih
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish Syrian politician (PYD)
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH near Ain al-Arab , Aleppo Governorate , Syria