Syria’s Kurdish fault line deepens amid rival protests

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Syria's Kurdish fault line deepens amid rival protests Protests in northeast Syria are exposing competing demands over the region's reintegration into the Syrian state, as demonstrations calling for greater government control coincide with a growing Kurdish movement demanding protection for Kurdish-language education. Hundreds of people took to the streets of Hasakah on Friday under the slogan "Friday for the Restoration of Sovereignty", demanding that Damascus assert full state authority over the ethnically diverse northeastern province. The demonstration began after Friday prayers at the Abu…