By Muhammed Seyh Yusuf and Said Ibicioglu
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Syrian opposition supports Turkey's plans to move against the PYD/PKK terrorist group, a top opposition official told Anadolu Agency on Thursday.
Abdurrahman Mustafa, the deputy chair of the National Coalition of Syrian Opposition and Revolutionary Forces, said Afrin — a border Syrian town presently under control of terrorist PYD/PKK — must be rescued from the terrorists as soon as possible.
“We support Turkey's plans against this separatist organization, ” Mustafa said.
He pointed out that areas like Afrin should have been freed before.
“As we did during the Euphrates Shield, we are again ready for cooperation with Turkey, ” he said, referring to a successful Turkish-led operation against Daesh, which ended in March 2017.
Mustafa added that they would offer Turkey help to rid Afrin and other regions of the PYD/PKK.
The PYD/PKK is the Syrian offshoot of the PKK terrorist group, which has been designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU. Since the mid-1980s, the PKK has waged a wide-ranging terror campaign against the Turkish state in which an estimated 40,000 people have been killed.
