MESOP : THE MAGICIANS IN WASHINGTON / WHITEWASH TRICKS – US GOVERNMENT AGENCY REMOVES WEBPAGE LINKING SYRIAN KURDISH PYD TO TURKISH INSURGENCY PKK

The US National Counter-Terrorism Center has removed a webpage citing links between the Turkish Kurdish insurgency PKK and the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union (PYD). The 2014 document of the NCTC, part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, described the Kurdish umbrella organization Kongra-Gel, which includes the PKK and the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK). It said “the PYD’s presence in Syria along Turkey’s border might pose a heightened threat to Turkey and increase tensions along the border”.

On Thursday, State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner said that he had “no authority to talk on how other US state institutions or a certain website defines the YPG”. www.mesop.de