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| Rojava delegation talks Afrin with France’s Hollande in Paris |
| 2018-01-28 |
| [RUDAW.NET] A delegation from Rojava has met with former French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... in Gay Paree on Friday to discuss the situation in Afrin. Aldar Khalil, co-president of the executive body of the Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) that governs Rojava, Abdul Salam Mustafa, Democratic Union Party (PYD) representative in Europe, and Dr. Khalid Issa, Rojava representative in Gay Paree, sought French assistance to pressure Ankara to end its military operation, the PYD stated. The Kurds discussed "the aggressive war of the occupying They told Hollande that ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... is carrying out its operation under "false pretenses" and is destabilizing the area. Hollande "promised that he would do everything in his power to stop this aggression," the PYD asserted, reporting that he told the Kurdish delegation, "We and the Kurds are friends and allies in the war on terrorism" and the French government and people will not accept the conflict in Afrin. |
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