TODAY’S MESOP BAD NEWS : Syrian Kurds Stress Unity With Damascus Government

Fars News – TEHRAN – 28.4.2014 – A senior Kurdish lawmaker in the Syrian parliament ruled out the idea of federalism in Syria, and said that his compatriots will strongly accompany the army in defending their country against the terrorists.

“The Kurds do not intend to see Syria become a federal state and their resolve to defend the country can be seen very readily in the Syrian Kurds Popular support record,” Kurdish MP Omar al-Oussi told FNA on Saturday.

He noted that the Syrian government is now in control over many Kurdish regions such as Qameshli and Hasaka. “I have called on the Kurdish parties that have joined the Syrian opposition coalition to take part in national reconciliation talks,” Al-Oussi told the very few Kurdish parties that joined the opposition at the start of the unrests in Syria three years ago.

“The Kurdish parties’ joining the Syrian opposition coalition was a historic mistake,” he added.

In relevant remarks in late July 2013, a senior Syrian Kurd leader underlined that the Kurdish population in Syria do not intend to separate from the central government in Damascus and will fight the terrorists attacking Bashar al-Assad’s government. “What is said in certain media sources about the intention of the Kurdish Syrians residing in the North for getting separated from the central government is not true and has no correct basis,” member of the council of Syria’s Kurdistan Democratic Union Jawan Mostafa said in an interview with Hadas News. He said that the plan presented by the Syrian Kurds’ Democratic Civil Society Movement stresses brotherhood and peaceful coexistence among all regional people, tribes and groups with a permission to locally administer their regions. Meantime, he stressed that the Kurdish population will stand firm against terrorist al-Nusra Front fighting the Damascus government. http://english.farsnews.com