Salih Muslim Muhammad
Salih Muslim (Arabic: صالح مسلم, DMG Salih Muslim; * 1951 in a nomad camp in the area of Ain al-Arab, Governorate Aleppo ) is a Syrian -Kurdish politician and co-chair of the Kurdish PYD in Syria. He is also the deputy coordinator of the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change.
Life
Muslim came in 1951 in the vicinity of Ain al-Arab to the world. He spent his childhood in the village Schiran. In the 70s he studied chemical engineering at Istanbul Technical University and completed his studies in 1977. During his studies he was influenced politically by the simultaneous Mustafa Barzani's Kurdish Revolution in Iraq during the so-called second Kurdish war. After graduation, he started as an engineer in Saudi Arabia to work and returned in the 1990s back to Syria.
1998, decided Muslim, the Democratic Party to join Kurdistan Syria. Disappointed by the low efficiency of KDP in Syria, he decided in 2003 to join the PYD, which was established by decision of the PKK in the same year. He was repeatedly imprisoned without charge and tortured in detention. After he and his wife had been imprisoned because of his political work in Syria, he fled from further political persecution in a PYD camp in northern Iraq. Since 2010 he has been Chairman of the party. With the beginning of the revolution in Syria, he returned in March 2011 to Syria. Muslim is also member of the High Kurdish Committee, a commission for the self-government of the Kurdish regions of Syria.
Muslim is married and has five children, four sons and a daughter. Muslim sons are fighters of the People's Defense Units ( YPG ). His youngest son Servan Muslim was killed on October 9, 2013 by a sniper of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant near Tall Abyads.
Muslim describes the current situation in Syria and the future of the Kurds in Syria as follows:
" It is the beginning of the spread of the authority of the Kurdish people about their own areas. We believe that the Kurdish claims within the Syrian boundaries must be met and should keep any solution to the Kurdish question the unity of Syria. "