Page 173 - America's Failure to Perceive the PKK

Masoud Barzani, the President of the Iraqi Kurdistan
Autonomous Region, accuses the PYD of seizing Rojava by force of
arms with the cooperation of the Syrian government and constantly
lambasts the anti-democratic practices of the PYD. Although Barzani
says, "They are taking up arms with several ambiguous excuses every pass-
ing day... Unless free elections are held, no group has the right to impose
itself on others. The real representative of Syrian Kurds is the Kurdish

Supreme Committee," 65 the PKK pays no attention to these words.
Barzani's following assertions are highly important and accurate;
"The PYD broke the alliance we tried to form and started to pursue a
policy in the region demanded only by itself. The PYD uninter-
ruptedly continued its policies of taking the executives and the
members of the Syrian Kurdistan Democratic Party into cus-

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