- Title: Kurds celebrate Nowruz spring festival with dancing and traditional costumes
- Date: 21st March 2025
- Summary: QAMISHLI, SYRIA (MARCH 21, 2025) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (Kurdish) QAMESHLI RESIDENT, NEJBIR GHANEM, SAYING: "Frankly, Nowruz this year is different, because the Syrian regime has fallen, and all Syrians have participated with us in the Nowruz celebrations. We feel very beautiful feelings and the atmosphere is very enthusiastic. We hope that the coming days will be full of j
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- Keywords: KURDS NOWRUZ QAMISHLI SECURITY SYRIA
- Location: QAMISHLI, SYRIA
- City: QAMISHLI, SYRIA
- Country: Syria
- Topics: Middle East,Religion/Belief,Society/Social Issues
- Reuters ID: LVA005074021032025RP1
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- Story Text: Wearing vibrant traditional Kurdish costumes, crowds gathered in Qamishli on Friday (March 21) to celebrate Nowruz spring festival, for the first time after the fall of Syria's Assad.
Men and women danced to music as they raised Kurdish flags to mark the special day.
The celebrations this year come after the Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which controls much of Syria's oil-rich northeast, signed a deal with the Damascus government earlier this month, to join Syria's new state institutions.
In the Iranian calendar, Nowruz marks the first day of spring and the vernal equinox, and it Is celebrated by more than 300 million people all around the world, according to the United Nations.
It is an important festival in Kurdish culture in which people gather to play games, dance and eat.
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