PYD AS A USEFUL TOOL IN THE GAME
Mahmud an‑Nasir, former Syrian intelligence officer from Raʾs al‑ʿAyn:
The PYD has been very helpful for the Syrian intelligence service given that the PKK position as the dominant political party among the poorer classes and the lower middle class in Kurdistan, in other words those classes that could have been a danger for the state. Thus the PKK spared us a confrontation.