PrintWhile there has been a new flare up of protests in the insurgent-held areas of northern Syria on account of growing anti-refugee sentiment in Turkey and attacks on Syrian refugee communities, the protests in Idlib and its environs in particular continue to be primarily driven by grievances against policies of the dominant faction Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham.
I have already given a perspective on these protests that is supportive of the protests. In this interview I present a very interesting perspective that is more critical of the demonstration, but at the same time is not supportive of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham. Today's interviewee is Abd al-Majid Sharif, who once served as head of the local council in the originally Druze village of Kaftin in the Jabal al-Summaq region of northern Idlib (NB: the system of local councils has been abolished by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, being replaced by municipal offices that cover wider areas). The interview is slightly edited and condensed for clarity. Any parenthetical insertions in square brackets are my own.
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