In this episode of The Amargi Mosaic, host Elif Sarican speaks with Kawa Hassan about Aleppo’s catastrophic violence in early January 2026, when fighting forced over 100,000 people from predominantly Kurdish neighbourhoods. They examine what went wrong with the March 10 agreement for territorial integration and whether Kurds are being sacrificed as Israel and Syria reached a security agreement with US backing. Hassan analyses the fundamental contradiction: Turkey viewing the Kurdish issue as a security matter whilst the Kurdish movement sees it as democratisation. The conversation explores whether genuine peace is possible when Turkey appears to be directing Damascus’s Kurdish policy, and what it means that the PKK announced dissolution after 40 years whilst Syrian Kurds face attacks in Aleppo. Drawing on his mediation experience between Syrian Kurdish parties, Hassan assesses whether these intertwined peace processes will succeed or collapse together.
