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Turkey’s Pro-Kurdish Party Warns Syria Violence Threatens Peace Efforts
Renewed clashes in Syria risk undoing Sunday’s ceasefire and integration deal between Syria’s interim government and Kurdish-led forces, with 35 arrests reported in related protests, officials said.
- On Tuesday, Tulay Hatimogullari of the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party warned that violence against Kurdish groups in Syria risks undermining fragile reconciliation with Kurdish militants during a party meeting in Nusaybin, Turkey.
- The Sunday agreement called for the Syrian Democratic Forces to cede most northeastern territory and integrate fighters, but renewed fighting on Monday prompted SDF resistance and shattered the deal.
- Protest actions in Nusaybin escalated when protesters lowered a Turkish flag at a military observation post, sparking clashes with Turkish police and prompting dozens of DEM party supporters to denounce a 'massacre'.
- Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc announced on Monday that authorities launched investigations into 356 people tied to the incident, with 35 arrested, 45 released with judicial restrictions and 77 held in custody, while President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned the SDF against stalling the agreement.
- Despite the PKK's May announcement to disarm, Turkey views the SDF as inseparable from the PKK, and previous peace efforts collapsed most recently in 2015, fueling skepticism.
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Turkey's pro-Kurdish party warns Syria violence threatens peace efforts
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish political party says that violence against Kurdish groups in Syria risks undermining reconciliation efforts with Kurdish militants in Turkey.
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