Ankara wants close ties with Kurdish movement

[Aslan]

Turkey wants to enhance its relations with the Kurdish movement in Syria, said Abdulbaki Yusuf, a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), on Friday.

Yusuf, based in Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, told AA that Kurdish National Council (KNC) representatives who met Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Thursday discussed with him opening Turkish border gates and a possible international conference in Geneva on the Syrian civil war.

"Turkey wants Kurds to join the conference as a component of the Syrian National Coalition. Ankara wants to get close to the Kurdish movement and improve relations," Yusuf said.

"When you are distant from one another, problems get deeper and more complicated. But when there is negotiation and exchange of ideas, solutions become easy."

Yusuf claimed Turkey wished to distance pro-Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) from the Syrian regime, while he cited PYD's policies as reason why Kurds were divided into two groups in their ties with Ankara.
"PYD does not allow there to be agreement and unity between the two Kurdish councils. PYD has not abided by the Irbil agreement mediated by (autonomous region head) Masoud Barzani," he said.

PYD and KNC reached a cooperation deal last year in July under the auspice of Barzani, which resulted in the formation of the Kurdish Supreme Committee (KSC). But the agreement has failed to result in complete unity between the groups.

Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoglu met Thursday Kurdish Democratic Party leader Abulhakim Bashar, Secretary General of the Syrian Kurdish Unity Party Ibrahim Bro and Kurdish Democratic Party Deputy Chairman Mustafa Sino, according to diplomatic sources.

KSC reportedly asked for a separate meeting with officials from the Turkish Foreign Ministry.
AA

[Anthea]

Are the members of the Turkish government all MAD

They supported the Turkmen in Iraq against the Kurds - they are currently supporting the Islamic jhadists who are killing Kurds in Western Kurdistan - they have just passed a motion allowing them to bomb Southern Kurdistan - now they want to be friends

[talsor]

KNC is practically powerless and does not control an inch of western Kurdistan . They are willing to shake hand with anyone who would give them some recognition . Recently they joined the FSA too with ZERO compromises from FSA in terms of kurdish rights , just to get some funding and recognition . KNC is a failure and YPG is even a bigger failure when it comes to Kurdish unity .