Konflikten i Syrien

The Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) has no intention to break its ties with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in response to Turkey’s opposition to the PYD’s participation in the Syrian National Dialogue Congress, a member of the PYD’s Media Committee told Sputnik on Wednesday.

“We have ideological ties. [PKK founder Abdullah] Ocalan is a political and ideological authority for us. We reject such manifestations, when we are told what we should do. [PKK] is the Turkish Kurdish party, our ties with the PKK are the same as with the [leader of the Iraqi Patriotic Union of Kurdistan] Jalal Talabani, but Ocalan is a philosopher for us, he is an ideological authority, who has proposed a new world theory,” Ibrahim Ibrahim said answering a question about the potential breakup with the PKK to end the crisis in ties with Ankara.