Salih Muslim: En lösning på konflikten måste inkludera Assad
De syriska kurdernas ledare Salih Muslim säger nu i en intervju med turkiska Taraf att en lösning på konflikten utan Assad inte längre är möjlig:
Syria Kurdish Leader: Solution Must Include Assad
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2013/10/syria-kurds-assad-solution-salih-muslim.html
Translated from Taraf (Turkey). Salih Muslim, co-chairman of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), said a solution in Syria without President Bashar al-Assad is not easy. “A solution without Assad means the death of 2 million Alawites," he said.
Muslim, who gave an exclusive interview in Rojava to Hilmi Hacioglu of the popular Turkish TV news program The 32nd Day, said his party wanted to participate in the Geneva meeting not as part of the Syrian National Coalition but as an independent Kurdish movement. Yet, some countries, including Turkey, were trying to block this.
Muslim said a solution without Assad would have been possible two years ago, but it was now impossible. "All Alawites now support Assad. Insisting on a solution without Assad means the death of 2 million Alawites in the country,” he added.
Detta bekräftar alltså tidigare rapporter om att kurderna vill skicka en egen delegation till Geneve, och är beredda att förhandla med Assad även om FSA och islamisterna uteblir.
Muslim förnekar att kurderna nu lierat sig med regimen, men påpekar att det finns de som är värre:
Asked if they were cooperating with the Assad regime, Muslim replied: "No, never. Whoever says this is disrespecting our martyr brothers. We have been fighting with the regime since the 2004 Kurdish uprising. We have nothing in common with them. They don’t recognize Kurdish identity. But others are worse than the regime."
På frågan vad kurderna eftersträvar svarar han ett federalt Syrien, men utan uppdelning i olika zoner:
To the question, "What do the Kurds aspire for now?" Muslim responded: "Kurds can speak of a federation without dividing it into Kurdish, Arab and Christian zones. We want to accept a new status. We are thinking of a democratic, federal system."