Kurdish Supreme Committee

The Kurdish Supreme Committee (Kurdish: Desteya Bilind a Kurd‎; DBK) was a self-proclaimed governing body of Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan), which was founded by the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the Kurdish National Council (KNC), following the signing on 12 July 2012 of a cooperation agreement between the two parties in Hewlêr, Iraqi Kurdistan under the auspice of the Iraqi Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani. The member board consists of an equal number of PYD and KNC members.

The DBK sought to fill the power vacuum left behind by the retreating Syrian Army in mid-2012 during the Syrian Civil War. It claimed self-governance for Rojava based on Kurdish ethnicity of the population. The committee's armed wing consisted of the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Women's Protection Units (YPJ) and was complemented with the Asayish police force.

The PYD increased its influence and control within Syrian Kurdistan until November 2013 when it abandoned the DBK, and the Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM), a coalition lead by the PYD, declared a new administration. The new administration persued a democratic confederalism model, dropping the emphasis on Kurdish identity desired by the KNC and moving to a more polyethnic structure. Rojava institutions initially founded under the DBK and based on Kurdish ethnicity have since undergone a transformation into a polyethnic character.