The Syrian Future Movement is following with deep concern the recent measures taken by the Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria, which included the closure of more than eighty educational institutions in Hasakah Governorate. This decision follows a series of decisions affecting national schools and universities, a move that directly undermines the right to education, cognitive diversity, and the unity of the Syrian national educational system.
In this context, the Syrian Future Movement recalls the national spirit expressed in the historic March Agreement between President Ahmed al-Sharaa and General Mazloum Abdi, which established the principle of national partnership and administrative integration within the framework of a single Syrian state. It believes that such decisions deviate from the essence of the agreement and strike at the heart of the concept of national decentralization, which is based on integration, not separation, and on diversity, not exclusion. The March Agreement was established as a national roadmap to preserve the unity of Syrian territory and establish a genuine partnership between all components, not to serve as an umbrella for the establishment of special curricula or the imposition of educational tutelage in isolation from comprehensive national consensus.
Hence, the Syrian Future Movement considers that infringing on the freedom of education or imposing unrecognized curricula constitutes a clear violation of Syrian national identity and the right of future generations to a comprehensive, recognized education connected to a unified future for Syrians.
The Syrian Future Movement reminds us that education is not a field for political debate or intellectual mobilization, but rather the primary pillar for building the new Syria we seek—a modern, pluralistic, decentralized Syria, but one united in territory, identity, and destiny. Any attempt to monopolize the educational process or subject it to a factional agenda constitutes an assault on the entire Syrian social contract.
While affirming its commitment to national unity in the face of all forms of extremism and isolation, the Syrian Future Movement calls on the leadership of the Autonomous Administration to immediately reverse its decisions to close educational institutions and to launch a comprehensive national educational dialogue that includes representatives of the state, civil society, and local education councils, under inclusive national supervision. This dialogue will ensure the rebuilding of education on professional and national foundations, free from political tensions.
The Syrian Future Movement also calls on all Kurdish, Arab, Syriac, and Christian national forces to adhere to the spirit of the March Agreement and its principles of partnership and mutual respect, and to work together to protect education as a national issue that leaves no room for experimentation or division.
We in the Syrian Future Movement believe that the future of Syria will only be built on the foundations of knowledge, freedom, and equal citizenship, and that its intellectual security is no less important than its political and military security.
Any infringement on this security is an infringement on the future of the nation itself.
