The interim Syrian government held talks with representatives of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), demanding that they disarm, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported on Monday, citing unnamed sources.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan previously stated that Turkiye would not accept members of the PKK, designated terrorist by Ankara, as legitimmate representatives of Syrian Kurds.
Meanwhile, PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, currently serving a life sentence on Turkiye’s Imrali Island, during a meeting with members of pro-Kurdish DEM party last week expressed his willingness to take a “positive step” toward resolving the Kurdish issue in the country.
Two meetings have taken place between the new Syrian authorities and representatives of the PKK, who reportedly sought recognition as a division or corps within the official Syrian army in exchange for disarmament. The new Syrian authorities did not accept any conditions, the Turkish newspaper said.
Turkiye’s conflict with the PKK started in 1984 and resumed in 2015. Turkiye launched operations Olive Branch and Peace Spring in Syria in 2018 and 2019, and Operation Claw-Lock in Iraq in 2022 despite protests from Damascus and Baghdad. Ankara insisted that the operations were aimed at protecting its borders from security threats posed by Kurdish militia.
Syria’s armed opposition captured Damascus on December 8. Syrian President Bashar Assad stepped down after negotiations with participants in the Syrian conflict and left Syria for Russia, where he was granted asylum, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Mohammed al-Bashir, who ran an Idlib-based administration formed by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other opposition groups, was named interim prime minister on December 10. He announced that an interim government had been formed and would remain in place until March 2025.
Note to the Kurds (despite Communist political leanings…):
NEVER GIVE UP YOUR FIREARMS!!!!!!!
If you do, you will be genocided / murdered by the J3w who now leads Syria, and is allowing the same to be continiously attacked by Israeli Military Forces (IDF).
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/al-jawlani-head-of-hts-that-overthrew-syria-president-is-jewish
The Kurds have for years battled Hellary Clinton’s ISIL / ISIS fighters, and it is well known that if the Kurds gave-up their arms, then they will have NO bargaining power insofar as becoming an autonomous and sovereign state.
The women Kurdish Fighters will not stand for a ‘laying-down of arms’. They know how deceitful the closet J3w$ can be, and the global governance that supports the same in behalf of ‘Greater Israel’..!
https://www.vice.com/en/article/girls-of-the-sun-kurdish-women-fighters/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYk_AanB4ZU
Tell the ‘new’ Syrian government to F*** off. If you want our arms, come and get them.
Well the evil creeps already have heads….
Negotiating with medieval style head choppers in good faith. Faith in this case, being an extreme perversion of Islam. The whole thing is a farce and the Kurds would do well to literally stick to their guns. The Turks can not be trusted either, they have shown themselves to be dissemblers.
Its easy to see how the West has controlled the Middle East. They have never united as one in their own interests. Always tribal, always at each others throats.