Özet:

The Kurdish people, who are sitting at the agenda of the international public at the same time as after the start of the civil war in Syria, are one of the communities that have been exposed to discrimination and pressure in Syria’s history. The Kurds, who had relatively good conditions to live their cultures and languages during the French mandate, became the subject of one of the country’s important issues after Syria gained independence in 1946. In the emergence of this situation, it is possible to say that discriminatory and exclusive state policies, which began to be implemented against the Kurds together with the second half of the 20th century, played a key role. The policies that take away the rights of citizenship of the Kurds, block their cultural and linguistic activities, restrict their participation in the political and social sphere, have made the Kurdish issue one of the country’s important issues. This study examines how the Kurdish issue in Syria emerged and how the government’s policies showed progress in the process until the Civil War. It is possible to say that such an investigation contains important clues for understanding the position where the Kurds are after the beginning of the domestic war.

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