Sep 18 Anti-government, Kurds

Isma'il Hami, Secretary of the Kurdish Union Party in Syria (Yekîtî):
»Our goal is the self-administration of the Kurds in Syrian Kurdistan«
http://www.kurdwatch.org/html/en/interview5.html

KURDWATCH, September 17, 2011—Ismaʿil Hami (b. 1964) is a founding member of the Kurdish Union Party in Syria (Yekîtî), which was established in 1999. Since 2010 he has been the party's secretary. He lives in al‑Qamishli. In a conversation with KURDWATCH, Hami speaks about his party's role in the Syrian revolution and about the Kurdish Patriotic Movement's relationship to the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the Kurdish Future Movement in Syria.

. . . The Muslim Brotherhood did dominate the meetings in Antalya and Istanbul. We would say that the Muslim Brotherhood is a part of the Syrian opposition, but they are not the strongest group. The fact that many overestimate the importance of the Muslim Brotherhood also has to do with the propaganda of the regime.

Thus far we've had no contact with the Muslim Brotherhood. We keep our distance from them and they from us.

They don't have a clear position on the Kurdish question in Syria. The Islamic groups don't want to concern themselves with national or ethnic problems. That has to do with their ideology. For them, Kurds and Arabs are simply Muslims. . .