MESOP NEWS NOTICE : PYD/PKK HAILS US DONALD TRUMPS ETHICAL STANDARDS / SALIH MUSLIM

PYD: US Ethically Should Stand with Syrian Kurds

11 Febr 2018 – BasNews – ERBIL — The United States and its anti-Islamic State Coalition ethically should stand with the Syrian Kurds at the face of the Turkish military offensives on Afrin, said a prominent Syrian Kurdish politician.

Speaking to EuroNews, Salih Muslim, former Co-chair of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), said that the US forces are still present in their previous positions in the Syrian Kurdistan and they are likely to stay. “The international alliance against Daesh, they are still there, and ethically they should stand beside us. So we don’t know what will happen, what they will do if the Turks advance,” Muslim pointed out.

“We will resist for our part. We will resist against this invasion, these attacks, we will resist. The stance of the United States is ok so far. They say ‘we are there, we will defend’; I mean there shouldn’t be any attacks in Manbij.”

Afrin, a strategic Kurdish enclave in northwestern Syria, is under a fierce attack from the Turkish army and Ankara-backed militias since January 20th.

The international community, the US and France on the forefront, have been opponent to the Turkish offensives, urging Ankara on halting the attacks and avoiding “adding war to war”. www.mesop.de