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linking the divided Kurds in their homes between Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran.
Kurdistan has been dispersed over large areas in Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey,
including that the Kurdish leaders at the time of treaties Sever and Luzan did not agree
on the A clear Kurdish border through which to draw the borders, including that the
Kurdish nation did not take power in the era of the Ottoman Sultanate and its states,
unlike the Arabs and Persians and Turks [Hassou, Ahmed (2014)].

3 - Economic reasons:

Syria is some country rich in natural resources, with abundant plains, abundant water,
skilled manpower and a natural diversity of mountains, valleys and plains. The bleak
picture of unemployment, low living standards, low purchasing power and increased
poverty, making economic life full of corruption, it is necessary to bribe for the
completion of any treatment in addition to the humiliation suffered by the citizen in
front of the security services, everything is linked to the various security services.

The author of the article entitled "Syria: Who is behind the protest movement, and
focused on mentioning the economic reasons that were the axis and the cornerstone
on which the Syrian crisis was based on the launch of its first spark, Due to Damascus
following the recipe of the International Monetary Fund for Syria in 2006, which is
the prescription imposed on Syria to adopt economic policies focusing on the
following:

- The application of strict austerity measures based on the principle of reducing costs
and reduce imports and the abolition of support and reduce spending on services.

- Freezing the level of wages and salaries, including non-wage increases, and not
opening new jobs for the recruitment of employees, workers and professionals [Jack,
Joseph Ouss (2014)].

Which led to the emergence of two sections in Syria first: They are a few people have
everything in their hands and they are the Assad family and around them, they loot
the resources and capabilities of Syria, and the second section: they are the majority
of the people of poverty, which led to the narrowness of the people and the explosion,
Was the economic factor is one of the important factors that triggered the crisis in
15/3/2011.

On the eve of 2011, the Syrian political and economic system established during the
1970s and 1980s was largely disbanded. It was based on the empowerment of the rural

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