Ocalan calls on Turkey to mediate an agreement between the Syrian Democratic Forces and Damascus

Historic Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) person Abdullah Ocalan, who has been successful situation for 26 years, is calling connected Turkey to facilitate an statement betwixt the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF),whose spearhead is the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), and Damascus, successful a connection posted contiguous by the Turkish pro-Kurdish DEM party.

Ocalan’s connection is released 1 time earlier the deadline for implementing the statement to integrate Kurdish forces into Syrian institutions.

“It is important for Turkey to play a mediating, constructive and dialogue-oriented relation successful this process. This is captious some for determination bid and for the strengthening of its ain interior peace,” Abdullah Ocalan says successful his connection written and dated December 30.

“The basal information expressed successful the statement signed connected March 10 betwixt the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Damascus authorities is simply a antiauthoritarian exemplary that allows the peoples to govern together. This attack besides includes a ground for antiauthoritarian integration which tin beryllium negotiated with the cardinal authorities. The implementation of the March 10 statement volition facilitate and accelerate this process,” helium writes.

The statement signed successful March betwixt the Kurds and the cardinal Syrian enactment provides for the integration of Kurdish institutions into the cardinal authorization and, astir importantly, the integration of Kurdish subject forces into the Syrian army.

The statement was to beryllium implemented by the extremity of the year, but negotiations person stalled.

Syrian Kurdish person Maslum Abdi asserted Thursday that helium is doing everything imaginable to forestall the woody from failing.

He reiterated the Syrian Forces of Syria’s demands for decentralization, which person been rejected by the cardinal authorization nether Ahmed al-Sara, who overthrew Bashar al-Assad successful 2024.

Turkish diplomatic main Hakhan Fidan has called connected the Kurds to instrumentality the statement and not go “an obstacle to the stableness of the country.”

Ankara, which considers the beingness of Kurdish fighters connected the Turkish-Syrian borderline a menace and has conducted 3 subject operations successful Syria betwixt 2016-2019, precocious warned the Kurds that the partners successful the woody are “losing patience.”