Can Syria’s Kurds save their women’s revolution?

叙利亚库尔德人能否挽救她们的妇女革命?

The Documentary Podcast

2026-03-03

26 分钟
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For 14 years, while Syria was divided by civil war, Kurds in the north-east of the country tried to build a new democratic society, with equality for men and women – an inspiration for feminists around the world. But now, the Kurdish autonomous area, Rojava, is coming back under the control of a central government that’s now run by former Islamists. Reporter Tim Whewell asks whether Rojava’s rare social experiment - including all-women fighting units – will survive? He interviews Kurdish women, including the young co-mayor of one of the area’s main cities, who’s determined to continue her work, and learns about the origins of Rojava’s unusual system. He also talks to a woman who says she and her family witnessed the killing in January this year of unarmed Kurdish men, by fighters supporting the central government. As such allegations multiply, many Kurds are nervous about their future in a united Syria. This episode of The Documentary comes to you from Assignment, investigations and journeys into the heart of global events.
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  • Welcome to Assignment on the Documentary from the BBC World Service with me, Tim Hewell.

  • This is the story of a social experiment that's inspired people around the world and that now faces a very uncertain future.

  • I've never walked into an atmosphere like there was in that hall that day.

  • Hundreds of women all united in this massive determination to hold on to the gains of what they call the women's revolution.

  • One after the other, women rose to their feet and called the hall to these chants of Jinjian Azadi,