Associated Press: It's not independence, but Syria's Kurds entrench self-rule - Oct. 08, 2017

Associated Press: It’s not independence, but Syria’s Kurds entrench self-rule

By Associated Press.

Published Oct. 8, 2017 at 4:20 pm

Syrian Kurds pose with a picture of Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani, while celebrating in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on Sept. 25, in support of the independence referendum in Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region.

Photo by AFP

BEIRUT – Adnan Hassan, a Syrian Kurd, finally has hope for himself and his people.

Two years ago, Islamic State militants nearly wiped out his hometown, Kobani, along Syria’s border with Turkey and killed 10 members of his family. Now with the militants driven out and going down in defeat, a new university is opening in the town, and Hassan will be its professor for Kurdish language and literature. It is the first university in the self-administered Kurdish areas, and the first in Syria to teach Kurdish.