​​​​​​​ From Avashin to Shingal, NES.. What occupiers plan and how to confront them

 On the 17th of April, the Turkish state launched a large-scale attack on the legitimate defense areas (Matina, Zab and Avashin) with the participation of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.  In northern and eastern Syria, where Turkish attacks have not stopped, since the beginning of April, Turkey has escalated the pace of its attacks.

 On the other hand, the Iraqi army built up in Shingal district, while the wall between Shingal and northern and eastern Syria is still standing.

 In parallel with this multi-sided escalation, the Damascus government has tightened its siege on the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods in Aleppo, in addition to besieging al-Shahba canton, where tens of thousands of displaced people live in the occupied canton of Afrin.

 The head of the Future Syria Party, Ibrahim Al-Qaftan, and the co-chair of the Democratic Peace Party, Talal Muhammad, assessed to our agency, the aim of these attacks and ways to confront them.

 Turkey does not want stability in the region

 The co-chair of the Future Syria Party, Ibrahim al-Qaftan, says, “Turkey insists that there will be no stability in this region on the pretext of fighting the Kurds, and fighting some parties, but what has become clear throughout this period still has an expansionist mentality, and hit any democratic project in the  this area.

 Kobani, the start of salvation from ISIS

 Ibrahim notes that Kobani has a special importance, and everyone is aware that the liberation of the regions of north and east Syria started from Kobani. We know that this city did not fall despite the strength of ISIS, which could not penetrate this city, which has a special symbolism for the people of the region. We consider it the main nucleus through which it  ISIS has been eliminated.

 Countries are not charities

 Ibrahim Al-Qaftan believes that the silence of the international community and the guarantor parties only indicates that these countries build their relations only on the basis of interests, "when Russian-Turkish interests intersect, there is Russian silence towards any action Turkey takes, and the same is true of America."

 Al-Qaftan pointed out that the people of Syria should realize that countries are not charities. Rather, they are interests that intersect at the expense of peoples, and we have to take advantage of this issue to solve the Syrian crisis. We intersect with all Syrian parties, whether they are with Damascus or the opposition or with any of the Syrian parties, we must look at our interests as well, as other countries look at their interests.”

 'The Syrian regime still relies on the zero-sum theory'

 The neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh have been facing a stifling siege since 2011, but their sons did not succumb. Today, the Damascus government is besieging them by preventing any food and medical supplies to it.

 Ibrahim Al-Qaftan explains that "the Syrian regime still relies on the zero-sum theory regarding the people of Syria (me or no one), and this is a fact that reflects negatively on it, and all parties should not burden the sons of Syria in Sheikh Maqsoud and others," and added, "If the government is serious about resolving the Syrian crisis, and it should not succumb to these petty things.”

 The Turkish occupation army launched a genocidal attack against the Peoples Defense Forces on the 17th of April, to annex new areas in Başûr Kurdistan. This comes after Erdogan's meeting with Masrour Barzani on the 15th of April in the Turkish city of Istanbul.

 The Kurdish people today are different

 The co-chair of the Kurdistan Democratic Peace Party, Talal Muhammad, commented on the developments in the region, and said: "What is happening is related to developments in the Middle East, and the contradictions between regional and international countries; the Kurdish issue is on the negotiating table between countries."

 Talal Muhammad noted that the Kurds did not resolve their affairs during the first and second world wars. Today we are in the midst of the third world war, and the world knows the Kurdish people for their sacrifice and resistance against the most powerful terrorist organization, so the Kurdish people today are different.

 His goal is to occupy Kurdistan

 And Muhammad said in “Politics there are no permanent friends, and there is no permanent enemy, but in the Kurdish case the enemy remains a permanent enemy, and Erdogan wants to occupy Kurdistan and exterminate the Kurdish people. His arguments for occupying Rojava and Başûr Kurdistan to fight the PKK are weak, his goal is to occupy Kurdistan.”

 Talal Muhammad called on Başûr Kurdistan government officials and politicians not to turn a blind eye to what is happening. "The enemies are not unaware, they want today to drag the Kurds into infighting. There will be no loser in this battle except the Kurdish people and their cause."

 Escalation as a result of an agreement between the occupation and the Kurdistan Democratic Party

 Muhammad linked the recent escalation of the Turkish occupation army to the recent visits between the KDP and Turkey, "there is an agreement between them and we can link them to many files, as well as the contradictions between the central government in Iraq and the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the Iraqi elections file, the complications in Iraq, and the internal problems that exist between the two parties about  Gas and Oil".

 The Turkish state supports the Syrian regime

 On a related level, media reports talk about the return of relations between the Damascus government and Turkey, in the context of intelligence communication, but the Damascus government denies the received news, and says that relations should be restored.

 Talal Muhammad says, "The Turkish state supports the Syrian regime. It is true that Turkey says that the regime in Syria is tyrannical and must be changed, but what is happening is that the reports issued speak of an approach with the regime, and these facts cannot be hidden."

 They want to put Shingal under political bartering

 On the other hand, the Iraqi government, similar to the Turkish occupation, is building a concrete wall to separate the peoples in the region. The Iraqi government claims that setting this border is to protect its borders from ISIS.

 Talal Muhammad shows that the construction of the wall between Syria and Iraq aims "to besiege Rojava and put pressure on the Autonomous Administration in Shingal. What is happening today is a continuity of the agreement signed by both the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Democratic Party," and points out: "The sons of Shingal are the ones who liberated their city without anything being offered to them."  A helping party since 2014 until now, today they want to put it under political swaps.”

 Recently, the areas of Tel Tamer, Zarkan, Ain Issa and al-Shahba are witnessing a military escalation and the mobilization of mercenaries on the front lines separating the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Turkish occupation.

 Talal Muhammad shows that the recent Turkish escalation and its threat to northern and eastern Syria “is the result of an agreement between the Turkish state and the Syrian regime, under the command of the Russians that want through the Turkish escalation, to concede to the Autonomous Administration of the Syrian regime. We see today how Sheikh Maqsoud, Ashrafieh and al-Shahba are besieged to put pressure on the administration."

 ISIS mercenaries announced that they will return to the scene again to avenge the killing of their leaders, in conjunction with the Turkish attack on the mountains of Kurdistan. This confirms the existence of a great scheme."

 The return of ISIS means deepening the Syrian crisis

 The co-chair of the Kurdistan Democratic Peace Party, Talal Muhammad, explains that ISIS has been geographically defeated on Syrian soil, but its cells continue to regroup  in the region.

 Talal Muhammad says that the return of ISIS to the region is linked to the countries that founded and supported ISIS, and its return means deepening and prolonging the Syrian crisis, and linked to the agenda of the Turkish state and countries that impede a democratic solution to the Syrian crisis. "The solution lies in political recognition of the Autonomous Administration to establish a court to prosecute thousands of mercenaries in the administration's prisons."

 Mustafa Al-Kazemi’s government claims that the construction of the wall between Shingal and Rojava is to protect Iraqi areas from ISIS mercenaries, but on August 3, 2014, the world saw how the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Iraqi government fled from ISIS and left the people of Shingal face to face with the genocide committed against them at the time.

 The wall is not to protect it from ISIS as they claim

 Talal Muhammad points out that the construction of the wall between Shingal and Rojava is not to protect it as they claim, the ISIS attack started from Mosul, the parties that built the wall themselves withdrew from the area and left its residents alone in front of the Genocide.  2014, meaning not recognizing them and their rights, the sons of Şengal struggled and resisted in order to protect and liberate their city and their right to form a decentralized administration.

 Muhammad called on the Iraqi government to create a constitutional situation to solve the issue of protecting Shingal, and noted that the construction of the wall is besieging Shingal and northeastern Syria.

 Border building message: "We closed the road to the resistance"

 Muhammad pointed out that by building the wall they want to send a message to the people of northern and eastern Syria;  "We closed the way for the resistance fighters who came to the rescue and embrace of the sons of Şengal." By building this wall, they say, "We will not allow you to provide any assistance to Şengal. There are many messages that the Iraqi government wants to deliver to Turkey as well. We are implementing what you asked us."

 Talal Muhammad stressed that the Middle East is going through a sensitive stage, and a democratic project is emerging again. This project will help establish confederal states, or a federal state, and decentralized states, and the peoples who did not obtain their rights will reach them if this project succeeds.

 They want to divide Kurdistan into 8 parts

 The co-chair of the Kurdistan Democratic Peace Party, Talal Muhammad, called on the Kurdish people to be vigilant, we will not conclude anything from what is happening if we do not support each other, problems are solved through dialogue, to solve our problems and be one hand, there are gains in Rojava and Başûr Kurdistan, we have to stick to be  A difficult number in protecting the Kurdish and Kurdish people. Our enemies want to draw a new Sykes-Picot in the region and divide Kurdistan instead of 4 into 8 parts.

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