KURDWATCH, July 22, 2012—The Kurdish Future Movement in Syria has split. On July 6, 2012, a group of approximately twenty people convened a general assembly in al‑Qamishli and declared that the chairman of the Office for General Communication, Rezan Bahri Shaykhmus, had been deposed, and elected a new Office of General Communication, consisting of eleven people. Jangidar Muhammad was elected chairman of the Office. The group supporting Rezan Bahri Shaykhmus does not recognize the elections. Subsequently there are currently two parties known as the Kurdish Future Movement in Syria.