Russian Positions on Syria and Syrian Kurds
Russian Positions on Syria and Syrian Kurds

Author(s): Konstantin Truevtsev
Subject(s): Governance, International relations/trade, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Penal Policy, Geopolitics, Politics and Identity, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Russian foreign policy; Syrian; Kurdistan; Relations on the governmental; Iran; Turkey; Iraq; Assad; Syria; Kurdish ties; Syrian Communist Party; Khaled Bakdash;
Summary/Abstract: Russian foreign policy initially did not place a high priority on the issue of Syrian Kurdistan. Relations on the governmental level with Iran, Turkey,Iraq, and Assad‘s Syria overshadowed this issue that remained extremely marginal until 2011 despite the Kurdish ties of the long-time leader of the Syrian Communist Party, Khaled Bakdash.

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