Human Rights Council Forum on Minority Issues Ninth session "Minorities in situations of humanitarian crises” 24 and 25 November 2016 Ladies and gentlemen.. The Kurds in Syria faced the harshest national oppression, which threatened seriously and dangerously their whole existence in Syria, YA§A e.V. because of racist and discriminative policies of the Baath`s governments YASA - Kurdish against the Kurdish people in Syria, by depriving them of the citizenship Centre for Studies and and enforcing a demographic change in the Kurdish region, in addition to Legal Consultancy brutal and systematic violations of human, political, civil, economic, YASA - Kurdisches cultural and social rights of the Kurds, collectively and individually. Zentrum für Studien When the Syrian revolution began, which turned later into a civil war and und juristische a proxy war, which many regional and international powers got involved Beratungen with different and conflicting interests on the Syrian territory, as a result the Kurds in Syria face now a new phase of danger that can completely YASA - Navenda kurdî ji bo lêkolîn û finish their existence on their historical land. rawêjkarîya yasayî The armed conflict in Syria has led to giant waves of migration and refuge seekers from Syria to the neighboring countries and to all over the ‫دي‬GHI‫ ا‬KLGMI‫ ا‬- BCBD world, especially EU countries. As a numerical minority in Syria, Also ‫رات‬BPQCR‫ت وا‬BC‫را‬TUI the Kurds population began to decline tragically, as a matter of fact, they VWXYXBZI‫ا‬ were threatened in the first place and before the outbreak of the YASA e.V. revolution. Brüdergasse 16-18 The Syrian government has withdrawn the officials and administrations 53111 Bonn from the Kurdish region and left the Kurds to their fate without any protection, in the same time Turkey closed the borders of the Kurdish www.yasa-online.org region and prevented the medical and necessary aids to enter the Kurdish towns and villages, while they let the jihadists to pass across the border to Syria, which led to the deterioration of the security and living conditions in the region, which is now threatened by a humanitarian disaster. Kobani resistance was one of the most important battles that took place between the Kurds and the "Islamic State" terrorists, which all the world has witnessed it. If the Kurds couldn`t have achieved the victory, the Kurdish existence would been completely finished throughout a massive ethnic cleansing. The rest of the Kurds had to maintain their security and their presence by the means they own, and took the responsibility of the rule and security in the region. Where the Democratic Union Party (PYD) came to power as a de facto ruler and declared later an autonomy region that called ROJAVA- northern Syria . Despite the Kurds are able to this day to maintain the security and host hundreds of thousands of displaced Syrians from Aleppo and other areas in the Kurdish region, but the migration of the Kurdish people continues day after day to the neighboring countries, especially to the Iraqi-Kurdistan region and to Europe. The living circumstances in the Kurdish region are catastrophic, where Afrin, the Kurdish city and its villages in northwestern Syria, lives under siege by jihadist groups who keep trying repeatedly to invade the region from the south; and the rest of Afrin region is surrounded by Turkey, where the borders are