The Executive Council of the Autonomous Administration of Northern and Eastern Syria issued a message to mark the 5th anniversary of the proclamation of the Democratic Autonomous Administration.

The message said: “We celebrate the 5th anniversary of the declaration of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of the Region of Jazira. We congratulate all the governments and peoples.”

The statement recalled that on 21 January 2014, the region of Jazira (former Canton of Jazira) declared the Democratic Autonomous Administration. The peoples formed the institutions of service, organization and defense, and self-governed the regions that were liberated from the regime as the result of the Revolution of 19 July 2012.”

In those same days, the Democratic Autonomous Administration was declared in Kobanê and Afrin.