No Agreement Among Syrian Kurds Over Interim Government
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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The Kurdish Supreme Committee (KSC) has failed to unite Syria’s quarrelling Kurdish groups and should be replaced with a provisional administration, according to the People’s Council, that was founded as an alternative to the embattled Damascus regime.
“We have submitted the proposal to all political parties in western (Syrian) Kurdistan,” said Abdulsalam Ahmed, co-chair of the People’s Council, adding that reaction to the proposal had been mixed.
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The KSC was meant to unite the PYD with rival Syrian Kurdish groups inside the umbrella Kurdish National Council (KNC), but a year after its formation political disagreements among the Kurdish parties have exacerbated.
Three members pulled out of the KSC after last month’s clashes in the town of Amude between the PYD’s militia forces and supporters of the KNC.
That incident was seen as a dangerous sign of a probable conflict among Kurdish parties, raising concern among different groups that some sort of governing body is immediately needed. The United States and the larger Arab Syrian opposition have been unable to intercede to resolve intra-Kurdish differences.
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But Abdulbaqi Yousif, representative of the Kurdistan Union Party, questioned the timing of such a project, his comments illustrating the lack of trust among the Kurdish parties.
“The emergence of such ideas goes back to the current situation of Kurds in Syria,” he said, alleging that various groups were trying to distract attention from the Amude incident by raising the issue of an interim government.
“The Al Party tries to take advantage of the unfortunate incidents at Amude, which were committed by the PYD, and by launching discussion over such an idea PYD tries to get over the Amude incidents,” he said.
He charged that the PYD was serving PKK interests, and that AI was working on behalf of neighboring Iraq’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).
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