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PYD should not be pushed away from Syrian
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Safin Dizayee, a senior member of Massoud Barzani’s
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). Photo: Ekurd.net/Dler
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August 3, 2012
ERBIL-Hewlêr, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — A
senior politician in Kurdistan Region of Iraq has
said that Turkey should accept to engage with all
Kurdish parties and groups in Syria following the
control of the Kurdish areas of the country by a
number of Kurdish armed groups among them the
Democratic Union Party (PYD) that Turkey accuses of
having links with its own outlawed Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK).
Turkey has voiced concern over the control of the
Kurdish territories in Syria (Western Kurdistan), on
the Turkish border, by the PYD and has said It will
not hesitate to use military force if a region was
established in the country that’s controlled by the
PYD.
Turkey fears that the Kurdish region in Syria will
open a new front for the PKK who have attacked
Turkey for years from their bases in northern
mountainous parts of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region
bordering Turkey.
Safin Dizayee, a senior member of Massoud Barzani’s
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) has told Today’s
Zaman, however, that: “The concern that Turkey has
with the PYD and other Kurdish groups in the area is
something that Turkey should approach, not push
away”
Dizayee has claimed that the PYD is not dominating
other Kurdish groups in Syria and that the group is
only “trying to fill a security and political
vacuum” in northern Syria,www.ekurd.net
abandoned by the Syrian forces.
“Some people have to keep law and order. The PYD and
others were available to do that, for daily
security,” Dizayee has said.
Dizayee has compared the position of the PYD I Syria
to that of the Iraqi Kurdish parties in 1991 when
Saddam Hussein’s forces withdrew from the region
following the Gulf War. The 1991 power vacuum in
Iraqi Kurdistan in 1991 led to the creation of the
semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan.
The Official’s remarks come as the Turkish Foreign
Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is in Kurdistan Region for
talks with the Kurdish President Massoud Barzani to
convince him to cooperate with Turkey to not allow a
PYD-controlled Kurdish region in Syria.
Dizayee has also dismissed speculations that
Kurdistan’s currently strong relations with its
neighbor Turkey might deteriorate over the Kurdish
issue in Syria.
“The dark chapter between the KRG and Ankara has
been closed since 2008. Since then we have been able
to develop very constructive and positive relations,
and we will continue to maintain that,”
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