Turkey- PYD YPG should be excluded from Syria cease fire process: Erdoan
Date
2/24/2016 9:22:21 AM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Syria’s Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the People’s Protection Units (YPG) should be excluded from a recently declared cessation of hostilities in Syria just like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Turkish PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdoanhas said. “The PYD and the YPG need to be out of the scope of the cease-fire just like Daesh is” Erdoan said during a speech to village headmen inAnkaraon Feb. 24 using an Arabic acronym for ISIL. “Everybody should accept that the PYD and the YPG are offshoots of thePKK[outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party]” he said. “Should this organization detonate its bomb somewhere other thanAnkarain order to be recognized as aPKKoffshoot?” The Turkish president also underlined that denying the organizations’ status as terror groups despite Turkey’s position on the matter was incompatible with the “spirit of an alliance.” Twenty-four hours after a suicide bomber targeting military personnel shuttles killed at least 29 people in Ankara Turkish officials announced that the attacker was a Syrian Kurd and “definitely” a member of the YPG while Erdoan said he had “no doubt” about the militant’s allegiance. An investigation revealed however that the bomber was a Turkish citizen named Abdülbaki Sömer who allegedly entered Turkey with a fake Syrian identity card. Meanwhile the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) a smaller outlawed organization that is an offshoot of the PKK claimed responsibility for the bombing. During his speech Erdoan also touched upon Ankara’s ongoing rift with Moscow after the former’s downing of aRussianjet on Nov. 24 2015 for allegedly violating its airspace. Erdoan claimedRussiawas continuing to violate Turkish airspace.
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