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Kurdistan president Massoud Barzani (R) meet with
Syrian National Council chief Abdulbaset Sieda,
in Erbil August 1, 2012 Photo: KRG
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July 30, 2012
ERBIL-Hewlęr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — Syrian National Council
chief Abdel Basset Sayda is on a visit to Iraqi
Kurdistan in a bid to convince Kurdish leaders to
join the opposition, an official from a Syrian
Kurdish group said.
"Abdel Basset Sayda arrived tonight (Sunday) in
Erbil, and he will meet the president of the
Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani, and other Kurdish
leaders" on Monday, a high-ranking official in the
Kurdish National Council (KNC) told AFP.
"Sayda wants to reach an agreement with Kurdish
leaders to join the Syrian National Council," the
official said, adding that the meeting will be
attended by the Supreme Kurdish Council, which
includes the KNC and the People's Council of Western
Kurdistan (PCWK).
The KNC is close to Barzani and Iraqi President
Jalal Talabani, while the PCWK is close to the
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which took up arms
in Turkey Kurdistan (northern Kurdistan) in
southeastern Turkey in 1984 and has bases in the
autonomous Kurdistan region in north Iraq.
The official also said that Sayda had made a
previous secret visit to Kurdistan to meet Barzani
and other Kurdish leaders after he took up his post
in June.
Activists say more than 20,000 have been killed
since an uprising against Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad's regime began in March 2011.
The country is home to nearly 3 million Kurds,www.ekurd.net
and Sayda himself is Kurdish. The KNC and the PCWK
united under the Supreme Kurdish Council earlier
this month.
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