Article 15 of the Rojava Social Charter asserts that the People's Protection Units are the "sole military force of the three cantons". Establishing a monopoly on the legitimate use of force within a given territory is, according to Max Weber, the very definition of a state.
As a consequence, a large number of note issuing banks competing with each other entered the market, some private and some public, the latter in the form of cantonal banks established by the cantons themselves.
Switzerland is a confederation of 20 cantons and 6 half-cantons, which was established in 1291 and whose capital is Berne.
Uniting Rojava's cantons would establish a buffer between ISIS and Turkey, limiting the flow of recruits and weapons to Islamic State fighters.
The best move for the U.S. would be to continue emphasizing the Kurds' rights to the cantons they have established in Syria, including in Turkey, Werz added.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Bern is a placid city whose name derives from the bear pits the canton's medieval rulers established there as a heraldic symbol; the bear pits are now part of the city's popular zoo.
Bern is a placid city whose name derives from the bear pits the canton's medieval rulers established there as a heraldic symbol; the bear pits are now part of the city's popular zoo.
Egged on by the PKK, Syrian Kurds have established autonomous cantons which Turkey fears will sharpen Kurdish separatism within its own borders.
Meant to lay the groundwork for "a society free from authoritarianism, militarism, centralism and the intervention of religious authority in public affairs," the charter established three autonomous cantons in Rojava, as the Kurdish region in northern Syria is known.
The PYD has wrested control of much of northern Syria along the Turkish border from Isis and has established three autonomous cantons between the Tigris, bordering on Iraq, and the Euphrates.
