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About this webinar: There are approximately 45 million Kurds who are spread out among four countries including Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. The Kurdish people have often been promised an independent Kurdistan, but that has never occurred. They are predominantly Sunni Muslim but are comprised of Jews, Yazidis, Christians, Shiite Muslims and Zoroastrians. Due to their strong ties with one another, they have frequently been singled out by the nations that govern them. They have faced many massacres and even attempts at genocide, including the use of chemical weapons against them.
The Kurdish people who compose the Syrian Democratic Forces fought valiantly alongside the United States for our defeat of ISIS, particularly in Syria. In fact, they lost 11,000 men and women in the defeat of ISIS., while we lost exactly 15. We, at EMET, considered our withdrawal of most of our American troops from Syria and the abandonment of the Kurds in 2019 as a black day in American history, although we still give the Kurds some limited support
Just this week, the Syrian representative to the United Nations told the new Biden administration that Syria would engage with the United States if we end our “interference in Syrian internal affairs”, including terminating any support that we still give to the Kurds. What is the status of the Kurdish population today? How many have been displaced from Syria and are living in refugee camps? How has Iran’s attempted occupation of Syria affected the Kurdish population , and of course how has Turkey under Erdogan affected the Kurdish population, both in Syria and in Turkey.
You can support the Kurdish people by signing the #Petition4Kurds here. Please note that any donations made on the petition go directly to Change.org and does not benefit EMET.
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