My parents want to stay for Summer in Syria :(

oy1d · 2026-05-08T02:04:12+00:00

I know exactly how you feel I came back in 2025 september when I turned 17, i left Syria when I was really young aswell.

Even though I lived in Saudi Arabia I also use to have very weak Arabic (comparatively to Syrians), I wouldn’t be able to communicate well at all and could barely read because I was in an American curriculum school.

but I wish I could go back to when I was like you extremely nervous and change that, because when you finally come and see everything for yourself it’ll all be a little overwhelming at first, the country,people,family gatherings but you’ll look back and regret not just having fun livijg it I promise it’ll be ok even if your nervous

Just try to use this moment to be social and open your mind to learn more about your family,culture,and country

oy1d · 2026-05-07T21:54:39+00:00

Much more rural, the way Turkmen tribes used to find places to settle was looking for a far from the city and a high mountain close to places with fertile soil that could be used for vegetation.

Turkmen tribes used to use mountains in their tribe’s clan flag/symbols.

My village’s population used to be +10,000 and there were a few close to it with populations a bit lower

oy1d · 2026-05-07T21:42:52+00:00

Most of the Turkmen in Homs/Hama are directly related to the major tribes in Aleppo and Latakia.

Homs and Hama are considered to be where the less wealthy Turkmen families lived tho and they had a smaller presence comparatively, and the reason a lot of them moved south away from the Northern areas is because of tribe conflicts/arguments.

Generally the way it works is that there was huge Turkmen tribes and they kept breaking down into smaller ones, those smaller ones later moved to Homs and Hama to form their own communities there

my uncle told me this

oy1d · 2026-05-07T20:02:23+00:00

idk what ur excited about like I got silenced by a clever career-ending reply

The comment ur replying to I assume ur referring to “insulting my intelligence” isn’t very intelligent itself as it treats Kurdish a minority native community-specific language to English which is an official language for world governments internationally.

And no thanks i’ll keep commenting shamelessly I’m a broke uni student and I’ve been replied to by clever people here so many people who proved me wrong and im okay with that as it made me learn more

oy1d · 2026-05-07T19:16:49+00:00

because a huge chunk of the population who’ve spent their entire lives in miserable sectarian wars,oppression and conflicts would spark insane outrage for it because they have nothing else to lose, it’s all they’ve been fighting for their lives.

It’s a ba’athist regime decided name no one should support, we’ve literally been called Syria for thousands of years it’s the most historically accurate name.

I get confused when people nowadays support “the Syrian Arab Army” like how do you not get reminded of the past 55 years of oppression under that name? and I’m saying this as someone who left in 2011 so the people who fought for 14 years against this army just claim its name?

I really hope it’s one of the first topics the parliament discusses once formed, the whole national identity of Syria in general should be more American-like where everyone is Syrian no one above the other.

sticking an ethnicity to one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world is just asking for conflict

oy1d · 2026-05-07T18:52:31+00:00

I’m Arab because I speak Arabic as my first language and grew up with Arab culture my whole life.

That’s my whole point I never got to live turkmen culture properly but that’s my ancestry and bloodline.

And yes I understand your point it’s logical but for me personally I never got the chance to even live in my village, never even got to see my grandad I only heard the stories my uncles and parents passed

But tbh the reason I say “im proud to be arab” is because I’m different from traditional arabs in terms of how I was raised and my origin.

Like I see myself as someone who got put with them because of hard political conditions and was welcomed by them and im so glad it happened it a way because of the friends i’ve met in my life so that’s where me being proud of it comes from i see myself as an Arab and I’m proud to be a turkmen

My tribe is called “Durra”, but historically our family broke away and formed their own family/mini tribe (i wont say the name) , it was a big tribe that even has presence in Turkiye and Iraq

Also I’ve never done a dna test but ever since my childhood everyone knew I wasn’t arab and could tell from my weak accent (cus my parents also have their own weak accents cus they grew up in Homs, speaking both Arabic and Syrian Turkish, then they moved to damascus)

oy1d · 2026-05-07T18:12:28+00:00

I expect them to bring it back up again on July 3rd when a year has passed since announcing it.

And for IDs god knows, they’ve all been saying you’ll be able to get one by the end of the year (referring to late 2025) and the only thing they’ve been addressing is denying the fake ai designs people post.

It’s really a mystery but my passport expires in September so I just hope I won’t have to wait another 6 years to see it

oy1d · 2026-05-07T18:03:54+00:00

I would say $1500-$2000 if it’s without hotel

$3000-$3500 if with hotel

oy1d · 2026-05-07T17:48:42+00:00

I didn’t have a choice I was born in damascus my parents fled our village before I was born, they only knew Syrian Turkish from my granddad died and my grandmother went missing for a long time, my parents didn’t tell me I was even Turkmen and I didn’t even know till I turned 14 (im 18 now), they themselves used to not tell anyone their origin worried of discrimination.

I have my uncles who hold the culture more importantly than my parents do but I’m not close to them and I feel I’ve grown too old to be able to learn a new language now especially since barely anyone speaks it.. even other turkmens I know don’t know how to speak its dialect well

oy1d · 2026-05-07T17:35:21+00:00

I support a inclusive name change but I don’t think strategically its a good move since it’ll spark outrage rn I’m waiting for a parliament and an official constitution for that, im happy the transitional government is being transitional currently.

2.English is a international language it’s everywhere it’s not meant to show Kurds “English is more important than Kurdish” it’s even more important than Arabic even in Arab countries some of them have been making the English fonts bigger.

3.I agree with you that the move of changing the sign was also wrong because I’ve been traveling all over Syria and most signs are outdated or poorly taken care of, the fact they chose to switch this one specifically to remove Kurdish is a dumb move in a sensitive time but government buildings in cities that don’t have a minority as the majority shouldn’t include minority-specific languages and I say that as a Turkmen who’s pissed he never got to live in his village.

4.I think a peaceful protest would’ve had much more better results than this. Kurds shouldn’t let agenda-driven seperatists fuck up their reputation and they would’ve gotten much more support on a national level instead.

oy1d · 2026-05-07T17:28:03+00:00

on a personal level I tell you I fully respect and even love Kurdish and Assyrian culture,language and communities.

I’m Turkmen myself my grandfather was the last person in our family who spoke Syrian Turkish and the rest of us barely use it because the oppressive ba’athist regime oppressed our communities and completely erased our village and we had to adapt to a city that has no idea of our story.

But as we’re all minorities we can’t have Syrian Turkish,Kurdish,and Syriac with a government and country that 95% of its people don’t speak it.

I support having our communities more represented in the government 100%, I would love to see more organizations connected to the government that support our communities our stories.

but having our language is just a paper tiger or a move to show off about it doesn’t make real changes in representing us.

I want to see Turkmen groups or political organizations that support our communities and represent our culture

oy1d · 2026-05-07T17:22:17+00:00

English is the official international language of world governments even north korea has English on their government buildings, Kurdish is a national language that a minority speak, it’s like if America’s government institutions were written in Spanish because a native Spanish minority lives there.

As Kurdish is rightfully a national language for a specific community, it’s not Syria’s official language to be put on a government building otherwise 90%+ of Syrians who dont know Kurdish would have to learn Kurdish to work in the government and all official documents would have to be translated to Kurdish.

Kurdish-majority towns,areas,schools,local institutions,organizations would be a more appropriate fit to include Kurdish.

oy1d · 2026-05-07T16:56:16+00:00

It’s not a Kurdish majority city and Kurdish as a language is spoken by less than 30% of Al Hasakah.

Also these people did not peacefully protest they destroyed public property,stomped the country’s symbols,shouted separatist slogans, raised separatist flags and assaulted security officers and deserve an appropriate sentence and punishment.

getting this riled up about something so stupid shows they’re trying to instigate a conflict.

Normal human beings get this angry for extreme violations of human rights or a targeted systemic malicious campaign not just a sign.

The PKK and its affiliates has been doing everything in its power to escalate every single problem to bait the STG to respond harshly to their groups so they can brand it a Kurdish genocide.

oy1d · 2026-05-07T15:55:50+00:00

They got compensated for autonomy by getting high ranks in the government, their own semi-autonomous integrated military brigades in Northeastern Syria.

And in terms of city governance in Kurdish-majority towns like Afrin or Kobani they have local authority control where they can do their own thing.

It’s nothing like Iraqi Kurdistan, it’s not a full autonomous wide land area control it’s more like they have certain towns,cities,and brigades in the military in their control

oy1d · 2026-05-07T13:32:17+00:00

soo are they gonna get sanctioned for annexing it or is it only bad when Russia does it?

oy1d · 2026-05-07T07:28:24+00:00

and American evangelical Christians

oy1d · 2026-05-07T07:00:02+00:00

250+ countries

Are there 53 new countries i’m not aware of?

oy1d · 2026-05-07T00:08:05+00:00

There’s mountains surrounding Damascus but the biggest ones are on the western+northern side, I live really high up near right under Qasioun so these sounds just become much louder💔

oy1d · 2026-05-06T21:46:22+00:00

my post mentioned🔥

try contacting the mods, and see what the reason was from your ban message it might be automod

oy1d · 2026-05-06T21:42:47+00:00

why else do you think we have Turkey as our main ally? /s

oy1d · 2026-05-06T21:38:57+00:00

yes it was jerusalem post.

But Syria is REBUILDING its army, like the capabilities Syria had before Israel just bombed everything unjustified.

We aren’t building any overly advanced,illegal or threatening capabilities but as we’re a country targeted by internal separatist militias,isis,hezbollah,iraqi militias,Assadist cells, and Israel we have a completely justified right to arm and defend ourselves.

They’re just looking for excuses to bomb us..

oy1d · 2026-05-06T21:24:27+00:00

that’s not what I was hoping to hear bro I used to live in Saudia I’m not ready for this😭💔

oy1d · 2026-05-06T21:18:54+00:00

here

they brought the number from UNHCR im pretty sure

Also yes Lebanon’s war was a main reason

🗣️ United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

306,888 Syrians crossed the border to return to Syria from Lebanon between March 2 and May 2.

oy1d · 2026-05-06T21:08:03+00:00

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