Syria Kurds will back anyone who fights YPG/PKK: Leader

By Rauf Maltas</p> <p>SANLIURFA, Turkey (AA) – Syrian Kurds will support any party that actively works to remove the YPG/PKK terrorist group from Syrian territory, a Syrian Kurdish leader said Wednesday. </p> <p>Abdulaziz Temmo, head of Syria’s Independent Kurdish Association, told Anadolu Agency that the YPG/PKK “does not serve or represent the nation’s Kurds”.</p> <p>The YPG/PKK, Temmo said, “has tortured and driven Kurds from their homes and forced our children to fight for them”. </p> <p>Syrian Kurds, according to Temmo, “will gladly support whoever sets out to evict the YPG/PKK from Syria”.</p> <p>“As Kurds, we constitute an essential part of the national fabric,” Temmo said. “The Syrian regime is our real enemy — not Turkey, as the YPG/PKK likes to claim.”</p> <p>He added: “We will be grateful to whoever expels them from Syria.”</p> <p>Syrian Kurds, he went on to assert, “reject the partition of Syrian territory and will stand against anyone who supports the YPG/PKK.”</p> <p>“We want to see unity among Syria’s Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen,” Temmo said.</p> <p>Syrian Kurds have repeatedly urged the U.S. to take military action against the YPG/PKK’s continued presence in Syria.