Syrian Citizenship Disappeared 10. Categories resulting of the 1962 census 1. Kurds enjoying the Syrian nationality; 2. Kurds deprived of citizenship, registered in the official records as foreigners; 3. Kurds deprived of citizenship, unregistered in the civil status official records and referred to as Maktoum al-Qayd. Among the figures stripped of their nationality were Tawfiq Nizam Eddin, a former Syrian army commander, and his brother Abdel Baky Nizam Eddin, who held several ministerial positions between 1949 and 1957.45 The special red identity card issued for ajanib al-Hasakah Photo credit: STJ tary of the Partiya Azadi Kurdi in Syria at the end of 2011. He represented the Kurdish National Council as deputy chairman of The National Coalition for Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces for two consecutive terms between 2015 - 2016. He is currently residing in Germany after he left Syria following a decision to turn him into a “counter-terrorism court”. The interview was conducted online in late July 2018. 45 The Major General Tawfiq Nizam Eddin a former Syrian army commander and one of the Syrian national leaders, born in 1914. Joined the military college in 1932. In 1945, along with some of his fellow officers, Tawfiq moved the nucleus of the Syrian army to Al Bukamal and declared its separation from the French army from there. In 1947, he was appointed head of the Third Division of the General Staff in Damascus, and he was one of the six colonels who carried out a coup against Sami al-Hinnawi in 1950 and stopped attempts to annex Syria to Iraq under the British mandate. He resigned in 1952-1954 from the army, under Adib Al-Shishakli, who pursue monolithism. Source: “The funeral of the Major General Tawfiq Nizam Eddin in Damascus”, al-Hayat Newspaper, 30 December 1998; http://www.alhayat.com/article/944261 (Last visit: 6 August 2018). Ja’afar al-Yasiri “Foreigners of Syria (Bidoon)… the Ticking Bomb”, Elaf website, Saturday 29 December 2007; https://elaph.com/Web/ AsdaElaph/2007/12/291884.html?sectionarchive=AsdaElaph (Last visit: 6 August 2018). 16 Identification certificate issued by the Mukhtar for maktumeen Photo credit: STJ