Hundreds of thousands of people are displaced in northeast Syria after the Turkish offensive, which has put one of the most interesting political experiments in the Middle East on the brink.
Since the Kurds took control of the territory in 2012, they have set up a self-ruled society advocating equality and inclusion for minorities. All this in a region crisscrossed by ethnic and religious faults. Salih Muslim, one of the best-known faces of the Syrian Kurdish movement, once summed it up for me: ‘We live together, that’s our revolution.’
