MHP (Nationalist Movement Party) Chairperson Devlet Bahçeli issued a written statement regarding the process carried out to resolve the Kurdish question and the ongoing negotiations in Syria.
Arguing that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the YPG are also addressees of the PKK and of Öcalan’s call, and therefore cannot be exempt from decisions on dissolution and disarmament, Bahçeli said that the statement made on 10 July by U.S. Ambassador to Ankara and Special Envoy for Syria, Tom Barrack (“One nation, one people, one army, one Syria”) was appropriate. However, he described Barrack’s 30 August remark (“There is now another organization not related to the PKK, namely the SDF and the YPG”) as equally “problematic.”
Referring again to the 10 March agreement between the SDF and the Syrian Interim Government within the framework of Syria’s reconstruction, Bahçeli reiterated his threat of an attack on North and East Syria.
Bahçeli said: “The SDF and YPG must comply fully and to the letter with the memorandum of understanding they signed with the Syrian administration on 10 March; otherwise, it must be known to all that a military intervention, through the joint will of Ankara and Damascus, will become inevitable.”