President Ahmed al-Sharaa of Syria issued a decree on Friday affirming the rights of Kurdish Syrians, in keeping with state media, in what was broadly thought-about an overture to the minority group after days of lethal clashes between authorities and Kurdish forces.
The decree acknowledged Kurdish as a nationwide language, alongside Arabic, and adopted Nowruz, the Persian New 12 months that’s broadly celebrated by Kurds, as an official vacation in Syria. Mr. al-Sharaa additionally known as for the federal government to grant Syrian citizenship to Kurdish residents who had been stripped of it after a 1962 census designed to curb Kurdish political affect.
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