The Syrian Democratic Turkmen Movement (Turkish: Suriye Demokratik Türkmen Hareketi; Arabic: الحركة التركمانية الديمقراطية) is one of the two major opposition...

The Syrian Turkmen Assembly (Turkish: Suriye Türkmen Meclisi, Arabic: المجلس السوري التركماني) is a coalition of Syrian Turkmen political parties and...

Syrian Turkmen, also called Syrian Turks or Syrian Turkish people (Arabic: تركمان سوريا, romanized: Turkumān Sūriyā; Turkish: Suriye Türkmenleri) are Syrian...

wing of the Syrian Turkmen Assembly, primarily fighting against the Syrian Arab Armed Forces, Islamic State (IS) and the Syrian Democratic Forces. They...

the Movement's Ali Öztürkmen and the Syrian Turkmen Group's Bekir Atacan, leaving to launch yet another activism-based movement, the Syrian Democratic Turkmen...

Syrian opposition was an umbrella term for the Syrian revolutionary organizations that opposed Bashar al-Assad's Ba'athist regime during the Syrian Revolution...

The Syria Turkmen Bloc (Turkish: Suriye Türkmen Kitlesi) or Syrian Turkmen National Bloc (Arabic: الكتلة الوطنية التركمانية السورية) is one of the two...

The Syrian Turkmen Group (Turkish: Suriye Türkmenler Birliği) was an early Syrian opposition movement of Syrian Turkmens. Founded in 2011 by prominent...

Quneitra Governorate. In 1979, Dr. Nikolaos van Dam claimed that the Syrian Turkmen/Turkoman (forming 3% of the population) were almost exclusively Sunni...

ongoing Rojava conflict and the wider Syrian civil war, in which its official military force, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has taken part. While...

northern Syria. It is a founding member of the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change. It is the leading political party among Syrian Kurds. The...

The Syrian Armed Forces were made up of the Syrian Arab Army (includes Republican Guard), Syrian Arab Navy, Syrian Arab Air Force, the Syrian Air Defense...

crackdowns by the Syrian government. In August, a coalition of opposition groups formed the Syrian National Council in hopes of creating a democratic, pluralistic...

used by Syrian Democratic Forces List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War Syrian Democratic Council Movement for a Democratic Society Democratic Union...

central and eastern Syria. Thereafter, three political entities—the Syrian Interim Government, Syrian Salvation Government, and the Democratic Autonomous Administration...

Turkish: Sultan Murat Tümeni) is a Syrian Turkmen rebel group fighting in the Syrian Civil War. It is aligned with the Syrian Interim Government and heavily...

The Syrian civil war began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered...

national and religious Arabs, Kurds, Turkmen, Armenians, Sabians, Yazidis and Shabaks. The Assyrian Democratic Movement was founded on April 12, 1979 after...

group in Syria is the Sunni Muslims. The majority are formed of indigenous Syrian but there is also a significant number of Sunni Kurds, Turkmen/Turkoman...

represented the broadest spectrum of Syrian opposition in the negotiations to end the Syrian civil war. The Syrian Negotiation Commission's mandate was...

Arabs and Syrian Turkmen. In late November 2024, the Syrian National Army participated alongside Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham in the 2024 Syrian Opposition...

known as democratic confederalism. When the Syrian Civil War broke out in 2011, the Syrian Kurdish parties avoided taking sides. When Syrian government...

insurgent group engaging in an insurgency against the Syrian transitional government and Israel. The Syrian Popular Resistance (SPR) was established in December...

The Free Syrian Army (FSA; Arabic: الجيش السوري الحر, romanized: al-jaysh as-Sūrī al-ḥur) is a big-tent coalition of decentralized Syrian opposition rebel...

The Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) is the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)...

ongoing clashes in Western Syria in the Syrian civil war. As of 17 March 2025, the UK-based independent monitoring group Syrian Network for Human Rights...

armed Syrian opposition, and has served as the de facto military governor of al-Bab since 2017 as well. Sayf Bulad is an ethnic Syrian Turkmen from Bizaah...

the Syrian Democratic Forces. During the Syrian Civil War, YPG members have been accused of human rights violations against Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen communities...

in the Syrian civil war in support of the Syrian Turkmen, whom they consider kinsmen. The MHP and Grey Wolves have provided the Syrian Turkmen Assembly...

2015, the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement absorbed several Syrian Turkmen groups supported by Turkey. On 11 November 35 Turkmen fighters in the group defected...