James Jeffrey: The PKK is a terrorist organization and its militants must leave Syria

ARK News… The special envoy for the international coalition against ISIS and the special representative for Syria, Ambassador James Jeffrey, said that his country classifies the PKK as a "terrorist organization", and indicated that the party's militants should leave the Syrian lands.

"We consider the PKK a terrorist organization, and we want to see its members leave Syria," Jeffrey added in an interview with the English service of the Syria Direct website.

He pointed out that the presence of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the northeast of Syria is a "major reason" for the tension between the United States and Turkey, indicating that Washington and Ankara have "very close coordination" on the Syrian situation, with the exception of the region where the PKK is spread.

Jeffrey said that Turkey's concerns about the composition of the SDF and the presence of the PKK are "real" and that his country is aware of this, pointing out that the solution lies in reducing the presence of the PKK and ultimately ending it.

Source: Kurdistan 24 (translated from Arabic)

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