Kurdish National Council
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Kurdish National Council
Encûmena Niştimanî ya Kurdî li Sûriyê |
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| Arabic name | المجلس الوطني الكوردي |
| Leader | Ibrahim Biro |
| Founded | 26 October 2011 (5 years, 3 months ago) |
| Headquarters |
Qamishli Erbil |
| Paramilitary wing | Rojava Peshmerga |
| Ideology |
Kurdish nationalism pro-decentralization of Syria Anti-Iranian |
| Political position | Centre-right to Right-wing |
| National affiliation |
Kurdish Supreme Committee National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
| International affiliation | Kurdistan Democratic Party |
| People's Council |
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| Democratic Council |
2 / 43
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The Kurdish National Council (KNC, Kurdish: Encûmena Niştimanî ya Kurdî li Sûriyê, ENKS; Arabic: المجلس الوطني الكوردي Al-Majlis Al-Watani Al-Kurdi) is a Syrian Kurdish political organization funded by the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraqi Kurdistan in the Syrian Civil War. While KNC had initially more international support than the ruling Democratic Union Party (PYD) and a strong supporter basis among some Syrian Kurdish refugees, the overwhelming popular support the PYD enjoys have shadowed it in Syrian Kurdistan.
Since 2012, the alleged authoritarian and nationalist politics of the KNC has led many political parties to leave it. Over the years, its membership has shrunk and it has lost much of its supporters. In 2016, the Syrian Yazidi Council announced its withdrawal and only two seats of the KNC remained in the Syrian Democratic Council.
The Kurdish National Council was founded in Hawler on 26 October 2011, under the sponsorship of Kurdish Regional Government President Massoud Barzani, following the earlier creation of the Syrian National Council. The organisation was originally composed of 11 Syrian Kurdish parties, however by May 2012 this had grown to 15.
Several KNC parties have also on occasion come into conflict with other Kurdish groups like the Democratic Union Party (PYD). In order to reduce tensions, Massoud Barzani mediated between the two groups in July 2012 at a diplomatic meeting in Hawler. As a result, the PYD and some other Kurdish groups joined with the Kurdish National Council to form the Kurdish Supreme Committee along with a popular defence force to defend Syrian Kurdistan. The agreement became obsolete when the PYD with several pro-federal Kurdish parties abandoned the coalition after they accused the KNC of allying with Syrian rebels that were attacking Kurdish cities. Later, the PYD with other Kurdish, Arab and Assyrian parties made a deal for the aim of creating a polyethnic and progressive society and polity in the Rojava region, creating the Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM).
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