[Hurriyet Daily News] If the Democratic Union Party (PYD) condemns the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), it may provide a way for ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
to open a channel with the group that is cooperating with the U.S. in Syria, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chair Özturk Yilmaz told news hounds in Washington over the weekend.
Yilmaz was in Washington 10 days after the visit of President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
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"U.S. officials are trying to give the impression that the cooperation with the PYD is just tactical and temporary. They are trying not to alienate Turkey. We say this: If the PYD says ’I condemn the PKK and do not support its activities, I have no ties to the PKK,’ this could prove a way forward," he said, pointing to Ankara’s relations with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq as a possible model.
"We opened a separate channel with the KRG in Iraq because it condemned the PKK. Why should not there be the same thing in Syria? If the Syrian people want to have an autonomous structure, it could facilitate that region’s relations with Turkey. But only on the condition that the PYD cuts its relations with the PKK," Yilmaz said.