Kurdish Group Ready to Back Main Syria Opposition in Return for Rights Recognition - Rudaw
Rudaw · Kurdish · rudaw.net
- Arabic title
- مجموعة كردية مستعدة لدعم المعارضة السورية الرئيسية مقابل الاعتراف بحقوقها - روداو
- English title
- Kurdish Group Ready to Back Main Syria Opposition in Return for Rights Recognition - Rudaw
- Published
- UTC
- Topic
- Displacement, Human rights, Politics
From the text
By Armando Cordoba ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria (KDPS) claims it will back the Free Syrian Army, the main fighting force in the Syrian uprising, on condition that the FSA recognizes Kurdish rights in the northeastern part of the country. “If they acknowledge our rights we will support everything,” said KDPS member Mohammad Salih Khalil. He added that some parties within the Kurdistan National Council (KNC), an umbrella group of more than a dozen Kurdish parties, have suggested that the KDPS join the main Western-backed Syrian opposition, the Syrian National…source ↗