sábado, 9 de diciembre de 2017

Russia’s Delicate Dance With The Syrian Kurds | OrientalReview.org

Russia’s Delicate Dance With The Syrian Kurds | OrientalReview.org

 

 The news
came out earlier this week that Russian jets were helping local
militias, including those comprised of Kurdish elements, in their
anti-terrorist struggle against Daesh, with the representative of the
Russian center for Syrian Reconciliation, Major General Yevgeniy
Poplavskiy, stating that the recent campaign in the region was
coordinated out of the Khmeimim airbase. After the fighting was
finished, Russia hosted 23 envoys in a meeting in a small city on the
eastern bank of the river to discuss their post-conflict political
options, and this notably included the YPG, which is the armed wing of
the Syrian Kurdish PYD party and designated as a terrorist organization
by Turkey. Neither
Ankara, nor Damascus for that matter, want to see the PYD take part in
Astana, and these two countries’ refusal to allow the group’s
participation has greatly complicated the Russian-led efforts and even
led to the postponement of the “Syrian National Dialogue Congress” that was originally supposed to take place late last month in Sochi.