MESOP NEWS – LAME PYD PROTEST CONTRA US / BUT PUTIN IS ALSO VERY SILENT ON TURKISH INVASION INTO SYRIA

PYD blames US for Turkey incursion in Syria, says YPG forces withdraw to Eastern Euphrates

5 Sept 2016 – MESOP – The Syrian pro-Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) stated that it is distressed with US silence against Turkey military incursion in Syria, adding that the affiliated forces of the party, People Protection Units (YPG), have withdrawn to eastern part of Euphrates River. Turkey has announced that the PYD should not advance to the western part of the river.The chief of PYD Foreign Relation, Zohat Kobani, told Kurdpress that the party is working with the US against the terrorist group of the Islamic State (IS), expressing his worry and wonder of the US silence against Turkey invasion into northern Syria, an attempt to curb Kurdish advance in the north.

The official added that Turkey is to divide Turkey and help terrorist groups to control a part of the country.He also blamed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who stated that there are not any Kurds between the two Kurdish cantons of Kobani and Afrin, reiterating that there are more than 100 Kurdish villages and small towns between Manbij and Afrin, northwest of Syria.Also the PYD representative to Europe, Kobani added that Daesh defeat in northern Syria was the reason behind Turkey’s incursion into the region. Kobani further added that recent Ankara and Washington meetings are to veil Erdogan failures, blaming the Turkish president for trying to destroy the will of democratic nations. www.mesop.de