MESOP REPORT : Tensions rise between the PYD & KDP-S in Syria – EN ROUTE TO AN ONLY ONE-PARTY RULE

15.05.2014 –  BasNews, Syria – Assayish (security police) belonging to the Democratic Union Party (PYD) removed a Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria (KDP-S) banner on Wednesday in the city of Girkê Legê (Al-Ma’bada) on the pretext that the KDP-S is not a licensed party.

According to local media reports, KDP-S party officials prevented their supporters from clashing with the PYD Assayish. The incident is another sign of the power struggle between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Syrian Kurdistan. Earlier on, the Assayish blocked the KDP-S party leader Saud al-Mullah from entering Syria.

The KDP supports the KDP-S, while the PKK supports the PYD. The KDP doesn’t recognize the three canton administrations established in the Kurdish regions of Syria, while the PYD accuses the KDP of imposing a blockade on the Kurdish areas of Syria by digging trenches along the border. Recently, the Interior Minister of the Hasakah administration, Kan’an Barakat, accused the KDP and KDP-S of preparing suicide attacks after a bomb exploded in the house of a KDP-S member in Tirbespî (Al-Qahtaniyah). The KDP-S denied the allegations, and suggested that the PYD is carrying out a revenge campaign against them.

At the beginning of April, several KDP-S members were sentenced to long jail terms by the PYD’s People’s Court in Afrin for allegedly carrying out bomb attacks there. http://www.mesop.de/?p=47096