MESOP: A NOT WELL ATTENDED PRESS CONFERENCE ON ROJAVA

PRESS CONFERENCE ROJAVA IN EU PARLIAMENT BY PYD(PKK) & SYRIAC UNION

Thursday 1 September; 10:00  –  (EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT; BRUSSELS – ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA ROOM – PHS 0A50)

“The urgent situation in Northern Syria-  the Turkish invasion, Europe’s security and an alternative to the Turkey deal”

Hosted by Mr. Škripek MEP (ECR/SK)

Reports by:  Saleh Muslim, Co-President PYD
David Vergili, European Syriac Union
MEP’s TBC

Mr. Škripek MEP invites you to join him in this press conference dealing with the urgent situation in Syria in light of the Turkish invasion in Syria, the war against ISIS and the urgent humanitarian needs of the IDP’s and civilian population.
Representatives of the Kurdish and Syriac Christian peoples of Northern Syria will be present to report on the actual situation. Mr. Saleh Muslim is Co-President of the PYD, one of the major Kurdish parties in the Democratic Self-Administration. David Vergili represents the European Syriac Union. The Syrian sister-organisation (Syriac Union Party) is the Syriac Christian party participating in the same Democratic Self-Administration. The (Kurdish-Syriac Christian-Arab) Syrian Democratic Forces who are defeating ISIS and resisting the Turkish invasion are the defence forces of this Democratic Self-Administration of Northern Syria, Rojava.

The Democratic Self-Administration has given shelter to IDP’s since the beginning of the Syrian civil war. With sufficient support the DSA is willing to be part of an alternative for the ‘Turkey deal’ in giving shelter to refugees.  
It is likely that other MEP’s involved in the situation will shortly address those present as well.

For more information please contact: T.A.A. Minnema, theodoorauke.minnema@europarl.europa.eu <mailto:theodoorauke.minnema@europarl.europa.eu>  or +3222837509 <tel:+3222837509> .