Northeast Syria thanks Catalan Parliament for recognition
There has long been a degree of solidarity between supporters of Kurdish autonomy and Catalan nationalists.
Kurdish-led authorities in northeast Syria thanked the Catalan Parliament Thursday for recognizing their autonomy.
“We offer sincere thanks to the friends in the Catalonia region and reaffirm our appreciation for their historical position,” the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria said in a press release.
The parliament of Catalonia in the eponymous autonomous region of Spain voted on Wednesday to recognize the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria as a political entity. Various pro-Catalan independence parties supported the resolution.
The Autonomous Administration governs northeast Syria. The region is led by the Democratic Union Party, which supports Kurdish autonomy. The population consists of Kurds, Arabs, Turkmens, Assyrian-Chaldean-Syriac Christians and others. The administration’s military force, the Syrian Democratic Forces, is backed by the United States. The region has limited recognition from Damascus and largely governs itself.
