It is incomprehensible why Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continues to meddle in the details of a security arrangement between Syrian and Iraqi Kurds given that it is an intra-Kurdish matter, Democratic Union Party (PYD) co-head Salih Muslim has said.
“Mr. Erdoğan is constantly saying things. We don’t understand why an issue between Kurds concerns his,” Muslim told Hürriyet on Oct. 27, insisting that the details of the transfer of Peshmerga forces to Kobane are issues that should be dealt with only by Iraqi and Syrian Kurdish parties.
“Mr. Erdoğan wants to be the one who decides everything. But not everything is in his power,” he added.
Muslim also repeated accusations that Turkey is supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) assault on Kobane by allowing jihadists to cross its borders. Erdoğan had previously accused the Kurdish group of “scheming along the Turkish border.”