December 7, 2020 / 08:24 PM
PYD and PYNK do not dare to admit defeat in talks: party leader

The head of the Kurdayati Movement in Syria says negotiations between the Syrian Kurdish National Council (ENKS) and the Kurdish Patriotic Union Parties (PYNK) parties have stopped and it seems unlikely that the talks could resume.

Hasan Sheikho stated that the claim by some officials from the two sides, that the negotiations have been halted as there is no US representative in the talks, are not true and the Kurds themselves cannot reach an agreement.

The veteran politician and critic of Syrian Kurdistan and head of the Kurdayati Movement in Syria (TKS), Hassan Sheikho, told KurdPress that the future of the talks between the ENKS and the PYNK is unclear, adding that "I do not hope for negotiation and understanding between these two groups, because the leaders of the two sides do not have an independent personality to do such a great thing for the benefit of their people."

He continued: "Both sides do not dare to tell the people that they have failed in the negotiations and that they cannot reach an agreement and that they have disappointed the people."

The head of the Kurdish Movement in Syrian Kurdistan went on to say: "Theغ lack a national spirit and there is no trace of heroism in them to serve the people and they cannot be a messenger of unity."

"It is not in their hand to make a political decision and their orders are issued from Ankara and other places and they do not follow the will of their people," Mr. Sheikho clarified.

He noted that all orders were issued from Qandil and Erbil, and that the Syrian Kurds could not pursue an independent policy in their own interests in Syria.

He noted that all orders are issued from Qandil and Erbil, and that the Syrian Kurds could not pursue an independent policy based on their own interests in Syria.

The TSK leader reminded: "The talks have stopped and I do not think it will continue. It is not a question of the presence of the United States, the Kurds themselves cannot reach an agreement."

"In 1998, the US Secretary of State took Jalal Talabani (former leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and former Iraqi President) and Masoud Barzani (the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party) to Washington and signed an agreement between them, but to this day we see two governments in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. The problem is that the Kurds themselves cannot reach an agreement on their interests," Hassan Sheikho clarified.

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