SDF: We will play a positive role to seek successful understandings with Turkey

Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), General Mazloum Abdi said during his speech at the annual meeting of SDF command which was held today at the headquarters of the General Command of SDF in the city of Hasakah: “We’ll do our best to make successful understandings with Turkey, which is organized by the United States, regarding the establishment of security on the borders, and we will be a positive side in that regard,” stressing that “Afrin region is an important point in the success of these understandings as the return of Afrin is our basic demand, and without its return to its normal state, there will be no lasting peace in Syria.”

  

Abdi called on the Syrian government to find “a proper solution for the current situation in northern Syria in general and the Kurdish cause in particular,  and the recognition of the Autonomous Administration in northeastern Syria along with the rights of the Kurdish people, within a  democratic and pluralistic Syria.”

Abdi added: “We have reconstituted the military councils, and today we will complete the reforming of SDF through a general military council that includes all military councils, and we will build military institutions,”  pointing out that the outputs of the meeting of the SDF command, “will be considered as a guarantee of an institutional work within the SDF institutions.”

Mazloum Abdi, the Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) also pointed out that the current stage is “more difficult than the previous ones in terms of countering the Islamic State (ISIS), because those groups’ sleeper cells are hiding among civilians, which makes the mission of eliminating those terrorist cells even harder”.