Rojava After Assad: Where Next for the Kurdish Struggle?

On the 8th December 2024, the Assad regime in Syria fell, replaced by a group of former jihadists called Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham.

In the north east of the country, in a territory called Rojava, a feminist socialist revolution has been ongoing for since 2012.

Then a few weeks ago, Abdullah Öcalan, a Kurdish leader who has been imprisoned by Turkey for 26 years, called on the PKK, the Kurdish Worker’s Party, to disband.

Elif Sarican is a writer, organiser and activist with the Kurdish woman’s movement. She spoke to Richard Hames about how to make sense of this new world, and whether or not the Kurdish revolution will survive.