Once again... PYD bans holding the Kurdish National Council its conference in Syria (video)

ARK News... As in 2017, the militants of the PYD administration prevented the holding of the fourth conference of the Kurdish National Council in Syria on the fourteenth of November 2022.

Dozens of members of the conference gathered in the Zana hall in the city of Qamishlo in Syrian Kurdistan, and in the presence of the party leader Saud Al-Mulla and members of the president of the Council, the gunmen of the PYD administration broke up the meeting and forced those gathered to leave the hall, which forced the conferees to head towards the office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Syria in the same city.

A source from the conference told ARK: The gunmen of the PYD administration also broke up the meeting in the office under the pretext that the conference did not have a license.

In this regard, Muhammad Ismail, a member of the presidency of the Council, said in a speech of thanks to the conferees and said that the conference was held and the other work of the conference will be started, the elections will start, and the procedures will be completed by announcing the results of the conference in a timely manner.

For his part, Saud Al-Mulla, the head of the council, said: The PYD administration does not want Kurdish unity and is doing the opposite. Such practices do not serve the interest of the Kurds and come contrary to the promises of the American side and the office of Mazloum Kobani, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces.

For its part, the Kurdish National Council in Syria said in a statement: In order not to repeat what happened to it in 2017, when PYD gunmen raided the council’s conference hall and prevented it from convening, the council informed the US ambassador of its intention to hold its conference and invited it to secure its convening and that the PYD abide by the content of the statement of its interior commission.

The statement added, “there is no legal obstacle for the Kurdish National Council in Syria to carry out its political, media, and social activities without the need for any prior security approvals.” After deliberations, the American side replied that the council can hold its conference safely and the SDF will work to protect it, constructing accordingly, the Zana hall was reserved in Qamishlo, and the necessary measures were taken to hold it.

IT also added that the Council was surprised, that the PYD security informed the director of the Zana hall to close it and not allow the conference to be held there, which forced the council to move the conference venue to one of its headquarters, where a group of PYD gunmen raided the hall again and forced those present to leave under threat and intimidation.

The Council said that despite that, the Council's presidency made a brief statement about what happened in front of the media present, and so the PYD once again prevented the convening of the fourth national conference of the Council, far from all democratic values and with extreme disregard for people's feelings and before their eyes, and disregard for the Kurdish public opinion that awaited the convening of the conference in these delicate circumstances and was followed by the media of paying attention, and this ban came with the aim of blocking any path or effort to build a unified Kurdish position.

The Council also said that this flagrant violation of the Kurdish National Council confirms once again the extent to which this party is singled out, imposing its will with the logic of power and authority, and the falsity of its democratic claims, and confirms the extent to which it goes in restricting freedoms, preventing political action, and targeting the council, which has become a title for what the Kurdish people in Syria aspire to.

The Council concluded that the Kurdish National Council while condemning the decision to prevent the convening of its conference and the practices of the PYD militants against the conferees, calls on those concerned from the American side and the SDF to put an end to these flagrant violations, it also affirms that this will not discourage the Council from continuing its struggle by all peaceful and democratic means to achieve the goals for which the Kurdish people fought to achieve their national rights and build a federal, pluralistic, democratic Syria for all Syrians.

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