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Syrian Kurdish National Council denies
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The leader of the Kurdistan National Council (KNC)
Ahmad Suleiman. Photo Rudaw.
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April 6, 2012
DAMASCUS, — The National Syrian Kurdish
Council denied Thursday meeting Turkey's Kurdistan
Workers' Party leader Murat Karayilan in Iraqi
Kurdistan's Qandil mountains.
Websites reported that a delegation from the Syrian
Kurdish Council, including political parties, youth
organizations and independents, headed to the Qandil
mountains - in the bordering triangle between Iraqi
Kurdistan region, Turkey and Iran - to meet
Karayilan.
The aim of the meeting was to consolidate the
position of the Kurdish parties in Syria,
considering the Democratic Union Party that did not
join the Kurdish Council is thought of as part of
the Kurdistan Workers' Part (PKK) in Syria.
The council's chairman, Ahmed Suleiman, told AKnews
that the National Council did not receive any
invitation from Karayilan or other members of the
PKK to meet them in Qandil.
Karayilan, who is also the chairman of the executive
body of the PKK and chairman of the executive
council of the Kurdish Democratic Confederation
(KCK), said: "The PKK will turn all the Kurdish
areas in Syria to a
battle field if the Turkish army
entered Syrian Kurdistan [Western Kurdistan]".
He also accused Ankara "of preparing for an
intervention encouraged by Western powers and
especially the United States and some European
countries."
The council refused days ago to turn the majority of
Kurdish areas in Syria into a war zone, in response
to Karayilan's statements.
As for holding the second conference of the National
Council, Suleiman said that the council has not yet
developed its political vision to prepare a
political program for the Kurdish council.
With regards to the content of the document issued
by the Syrian National Council he said that it is
positive, pointing out at the same time that the
document is not the same as what the Kurdish Council
approved earlier and agreed upon with the Syrian
National Council.
He considers that the document is related to the
Syrian council, and the Kurdish Council will
withdraw and not agree on the compatibility of the
document.
The Kurds withdrew from the Conference of the Syrian
opposition in Istanbul late last month, in protest
against the rejection of Kurdish demands by the
Syrian National Council.
The Kurds are the second largest population in the
country after the Arabs, and according to unofficial
statistics there are around 3 million Kurds. Kurdish
groups accuse the regime in Damascus of applying
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and have been doing so for decades.
Kurds have been hoping for the recognition of their
people and to be given the constitutional right of
self-determination to choose decentralized
management of their areas within the framework of a
unified Syria.
The President of the National Council, Burhan
Ghalyoun, sought to reassure the Kurds in Syria
during the "Friends of Syria" conference in Tunisia
two months ago.
He said Kurds will have a place after toppling
Assad's government, promising decentralization and
recognition of Kurdish national identity.
About the expansion of the local administration
approved by the Syrian National Council, Suleiman
said that political decentralization is the opinion
of the Kurdish conference and it will not give up
the demand.
He added, the expansion of the local administration,
currently proposed by the Syrian regime and to be
carried out in all provinces, does not take into
account the national and state privacy of Kurds in
their regions.
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