Career
Tammo was released in 2010 after spending more than three years in jail. Founding the liberal Kurdish Future Movement party he angered both the government and rivals in the Kurdish community. His outspoken vision towards a pluralistic democratic Syria, in which Kurds would take part just the way all other Syrians do, dismissed any kind of regional autonomy as demanded by most other Kurdish parties.
Though he later tried to rejoin the alliance, the other parties blocked any such action.
In the turmoil of the 2011 Syrian uprising, Tammo was assassinated by masked men who burst into an apartment and gunned him down on 7 October 2011. The next day, more than 50,000 mourners marched through Qamishli in a funeral procession for him.
Security forces fired into the crowds, killing five people. Tammo"s son, Fares Tammo, has urged Syria"s Kurds to throw their support behind the revolt, telling the New York Times: "My father"s assassination is the screw in the regime"s coffin.
The Syrian government blamed "armed terrorists" and an "international Conspiration against Syria“.
The Kurdistan Workers" Party, however, accused the government in Turkey of carrying out the assassination stating that "this assassination against a Kurdish politician carried out by Turkey. Turkey already has a very profound history record of political assassinations on the Kurdish people and other ethnic backgrounds, both in Turkey and in the region."
However, in October 2012, Saudi-owned television channel First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Arabiya published documents allegedly proving that Bashar al-Assad himself had engaged the Air Force Intelligence Directorate to assassinate Tammo.