Kurdish movement relies on the support of Assad and Russia. Kurds operation (together with Assad and Russians) against the opposition near the borders of Turkey can cause a massive Turkish attack.
"Bouthaina Shaaban, a senior advisor to Syrian President Bashar Assad, acknowledged the regime’s support of Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD). Shaaban has described PYD as an “allied force” for the regime and voiced the government’s satisfaction with cooperation with both Russia and PYD. “The YPG Kurdish units, the armed group of PYD, are cooperating with the Syrian army and Russian air forces to clear northern Syria of terrorism.” Bashar Jaafari, the regime envoy to UN have recently said “These Syrian Kurds supported by the American administration are also supported by the Syrian government, just for your kind information”. The Kurdish activist Rashad Mulla said in response to Shaaban’s declarations: ” Mrs. Shaaban hasn’t said anything new. The leaders of PYD said always that they are not willing to declare a Kurdish state inside Syria. They are fighting all rebel factions while coordinating with regime’s army.” “Those forces have no autonomy project, as they are fighting and expanding in areas outside their original territories (The cities and areas Kurds originally live in),” he added". (1)
But there is problem. Russian imperialism is weak. Russian group in Syria has 70 combat aircraft and few thousand soldiers. It has nothing to do against the coalition of Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Just Turkey's Army has 500 thousand soldiers, 2 thousand tanks, and a powerful fleet in the Mediterranean, which is stronger than the Russian fleet in this sea, and 270 f-16 in the air. But it is not even the main thing.
Main supply line of this Russian group is Bosphorus strait controlled by Turkey. Turks have a huge strategic advantage. They can close Bosphorus and destroy russian communications. I'm using opinion of an independent Russian military experts: perhaps Russia can not go at war with Turkey today. Russian support may not be sufficient for the Kurds to protect them from Turkish attack If Turks will enter Syria.
But even if we assume Russia protects Kurds from Turkey, it would not protect them from Assad who is the main ally of Russia in the region. Assad does not need Kurdish autonomy. He will destroy it at the first opportunity, just as the Bolsheviks destroyed Makhnovshina and the independence of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan in 1920-1921. The state belonged to the dictator Assad - Syrian Arab Republic - was built as a rigid centralised system, based on Arab nationalism. There is a little chance that Bashar Assad will use Rojava as a his tool against Turkey, just as his father Hafez Assad used PKK. But this is only a small chance.
But the main thing is the weakness of Russian imperialism....
I agree with Zaher Baher in some issues. Even the libertarian communalism of Murray Bookchin is a huge step forward for the Kurds. They have demonstrated libertarian communalism can be a viable platform for the development in the modern world (although, of course, there is no stateless society in Rojava) . 3 million people live in isolation, without hunger and they defending the region from the large forces of enemies during a few years. This experience based on the practice of local assemblies and cooperatives. It can be developed and used for the anarchist social revolutionary movement.
Unfortunately, I don't see how PKK\PYD\YPG movement can move forward. I see that it goes back to the nationalism and bourgeois politics (Zaher Baher) (2). The optimal thing would be to establish a libertarian-socialist and anarchist movement and to find ways for the development of an international class movement in the region, together with Turkish and Arab workers.
Isolated Kurdish nationalism, with its reliance on weak Russian imperialism can repeat the tragic fate of Armenian nationalism in 1915...
1) http://www.middleeastobserver.org/bouthaina-shaaban-kurdish-ypg-is-part-of-syrian-army
2) https://libcom.org/library/our-attitude-towards-rojava-must-be-critical-solidarity
In general, I tend to agree with meerov21. However, let 's be careful with sources. I checked that middle east observer ting. In "about us" it says: "Middle East Observer is managed by a group of Middle East journalists and analysts, from the head office in Istanbul in Turkey.
The aim is to produce neutral and objective news from the Middle East, and at the same time give a basic background to the events."
And I ask: how can you expect "objective news"f rom a news outlet based in Istanbul, Turkey, under its current regime? If there would be anything in it that seriously annoyed Erdiogan, the thing would be attacked or closed down. And it suits Turkey/ Erdogan very much to paint the PYD as just a branch of the Assad state machine and/ or a Russian state-sponsored outfit
Mind you, I am not saying that the article is untrue. I have seen other articles, from other souces, pointing in the same direction. I am saying that this article, in itself, should not be relied upon. It has a whiff of state propaganda about it.