Îlham Ehmed

Îlham Ehmed is a Syrian-Kurdish politician in Rojava in Northern Syria. She is co-chairperson of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC),[1][2] the umbrella organisation of secular, democratic, non-Islamist opposition in Syria. She is a senior member of the Democratic Union Party (PYD)[3] and a member of the executive committee of the Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) coalition.[4][2]

Ehmed is particularly outspoken on the aim of a programmatically polyethnic character of a future Syria. At the start of the Northern Raqqa offensive in November 2016, she was quoted saying that "such an administration could provide a good example for democratic change in Raqqa, especially that the city has been for years a de facto capital for the ISIS terrorist group. This accomplishment would be a major change in the overall situation in Syria, and would help the country move towards stability, democratic change. Raqqa will be an example for the whole country."[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Ehmed: Nobody can question where the SDF will advance". Hawar News Agency. 22 February 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Can Syrian Democratic Council play unifier in postwar Syria?". Al-Monitor. 13 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "Syrian Kurdish leader: Moscow wants to work with us". Al-Monitor. 8 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "Executive Board of Democratic Syria Assembly elected". ANF. 13 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Local civilian council to run post-ISIS Raqqa: Kurdish official". ARA news. 14 November 2016.
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