Asya Abdullah

Asya Abdullah is a Syrian Kurdish politician in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (Rojava). Asya Abdullah is the current chairwoman of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the former co-chair of the Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) coalition, and serves as a senior permanent member of the Syrian Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), serving in its upper administrative body. She has presented at numerous conferences to reach out to activists, academics and world leaders to garner support for the Kurdish political project in Rojava.