Nearly a week after the Syrian Democratic Forces agreed to dissolve, the consequences are beginning to take shape for Syria’s Kurds and neighbouring Turkey. As the former US-backed force is absorbed into the Syrian state, questions remain over what the country’s Kurds have secured in return – from language and political rights to protections for women – and what the end of more than a decade of Kurdish-led autonomy means for Turkey’s own conflict with Kurdish militants.
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