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Events in al-Qamishli in the spring of 2004 ended the obscurity of a community that, despite an increasing sense of identity since the 1970s, has not been able to transform its demographic weight (two million citizens, or 10 per cent of Syria’s population) into a substantial political force. Syria’s ‘Kurdish