MESOP TODAYS EDITORIAL : BY SIAMEND HAJO (RDISH NATIONAL CONGRESS) : KURDS ARE INVOLVED IN GENEVA !

“Kurdish parties are invited. The Kurdish National Council in Syria (KNC) is represented in the Geneva talks. Unfortunately, the press uncritically repeats the false Russian and American stance according to which “the Kurds” are not invited to the talks, actually meaning that the PYD is not invited. I think it is dangerous if the press conveys the impression that “Syria’s Kurds” are equivalent to the PYD. Such an equation causes a discursive subordination of Syria’s Kurds to a political party which is accused of human rights violations on a regular basis. Furthermore, in that way hundreds of thousands of Syrian Kurds are deliberately left out in Geneva, in particular the more than 625.000 Syrian people who signed a petition in the beginning of 2016 which approves the KNC as the Kurdish representative in Geneva and demands that the question of the future of mainly Kurdish inhabited regions should be one of the key points in the talks.” http://www.thedemocrate.com/?p=5405