MESOP : NOT LIBERATION BUT STALINIST & TORTURE METHODS BY PYD (PKK) IN WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA) – Family Appeals to Barzani to Stop PYD Violations in Syria / The PYD arrested KDP-S member Falamaz Uthman on 7 July.
Basnews – 16 Jul 2015 – EFRIN – The family of a Kurdish politician kidnapped in Efrin have appealed to Iraqi Kurdish president Massoud Barzani to stop the violations of the Democratic Union Party (PYD).
The Democratic Party of Kurdistan – Syria (KDP-S) said that security forces affiliated to the PYD arrested KDP-S member Falamaz Uthman on 7 July. “We appeal to President Massoud Barzani, to intervene to stop the violations,” said the brother of Falamaz in a letter published by the pro-KDP-S Rojavanews website, calling for the release of all prisoners. “The PYD does not accept anyone attempting to compete with them intellectually or politically and are using a dictatorial approach,” he said. The brother of Falamaz said the PYD prevented him from visiting his brother and haven’t told him where his brother was located. PYD-affiliated security forces have imprisoned and tortured several members of the KDP-S before, either without charge, or accusing them of bomb attacks.
On June 11th, 2015, PYD security forces released KDP-S members ʿAbdulhanan Habash, Ahmad Jamaluddin Saidu, and Mustafa Jamaluddin Saidu, who were arrested in May, in the village of Raju, reported the human rights NGO Kurdwatch.
Kurdwatch also said that on June 12th, the PYD Asayish detained two KDP-S members – Faysal Muhammed Naqib and Muhammed Husain – in the village of Dayr Ayyub, ten kilometers northeast of al‑ Qahtaniyah (Tirbesipî). Ciwan Ibrahim, head of the security forces, has previously denied links to any party, despite the fact that his security forces only arrest supporters of the KDP-S, and not the PYD. “We are frequently seen as being the same as the PYD, but we have absolutely no organic link with them,” he told the pro-PYD Firat News Agency in May 2014.