Category Archives: PYD

‘We decided to be soldiers for our people, not anyone else’: PYD leader

KT News: In a keynote speech at a Kurdish conference in London today, Salih Muslim Mohammed, leader of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), explained his party’s strategy for West Kurdistan and refuted claims that Kurds are aligned to Syria’s brutal Ba’athist regime. “We have the historical experience of Kurds being soldiers for others”, said Salih,…

PKK policies in Syria

By Kamal Chomani: “A Kurdish youth kissed my hands when he saw pictures of Murat Karayilan in my camera,” a photojournalist told me in Hawler last week. We’d last met, two years ago, with the PKK’s acting leader Murat Karayilan in the Qandil Mountains. The photojournalist had recently been to Kurdistan of Syria.  The next…