By the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Europe:

21 July 2013

In recent days events have come to light regarding the Syrian crisis, in particular the brutal military attacks by Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamic state of Iraq- Al Sham affiliated to Al-Qaida in Tal Abyed and Kurdish areas. These (are) planned attacks on the Kurdish towns and villages in Syria, aiming to evict the Kurdish people from their towns and force them to commit the jihadi and salafi path, not only in Kurdish areas but in the whole of Syria.

Recent days have revealed falsity and deception practiced by some political forces of the Syrian opposition. Some factions and armed battalions, are claiming Islam for their actions every day in most areas in Syria by killing, slaughtering and beating every person who disagrees with them, it is the same policy of the Baath regime. It has become clear to the whole world that the factions fighting in Syria, which speak in the name of Islam, will turn against its (own) people when the accounts of the spoils and profits are larger in one front compared with another front. Therefore we assure the Syrian people that those who raise their weapons on the people in the Kurdish areas today, will raise them tomorrow in the heart of their people in Damascus, Aleppo and Homs, Daraa and Deir el Zor. It is the same policy which the Ba’ath regime has followed and is still following.

The timing of the battles in the Kurdish areas against the Kurdish people comes at a time of growing calls for the support for the opposition, militarily and politically. This raises fears that the weapons coming from friendly countries to the opposition, and from the countries that support the regime, will be turned against the Syrian people and the Kurdish people in particular.

(At this time) the EU countries are preparing for a meeting in order to discuss arming the Syrian opposition, amid calls by the French and British to take steps towards translating it on the ground.

After it has become clear that the Syrian revolution has been derailed and that what was adopted by some in the Syrian Revolution as the concepts of freedom and democracy were a deception of history and politics – and therefore the Democratic Union Party is declaring the following: