Yesterday, French President Emmanuel Macron called Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan to speak to him of the Kurds. President Macron is supporting the Kurds but the details of the conversation have not been published. French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot has publicly stated that the Kurds need to be involved in the discussions about the future leadership and aspirations of Syria.
The position of the French President contrasts with that of the European Union which is taking a blind and non-critical supportive approach to Turkey’s policy on the Kurds in Syria. Turkey is considering Kurdish armed-groups as a security threat and the European Union is fully-supporting this Turkish policy. Strangely enough, it seems that the new European Union High Representative, Kaja Kallas has not made any public statements on this issue, with the position of the EU being publicly expressed by the Commissioner President in a press conference with the President of Turkey.
Kurdish groups, mainly the Syrian Democratic Forces, liberated large parts of Syria from ISIS and today control the north-eastern part of Syria. The new Syrian leadership wants the Kurds to disarm and integrate themselves with the new and upcoming regular army, something which the Kurds are refusing to do. A major confrontation between Kurdish forces and Turkish-backed forces is looming.
Meanwhile, some European Members of Parliament have also turned their attention to the Kurds, on the Kurds with Spanish and Galician, Green MEP Anna Miranda Paz voicing her support for the Kurds and applauding their feminist and democratic values.
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