Syrian Democratic Council: Russia and Turkey seek to create sedition in the region and send their children to fight in Libya
Qamishli- Abdulhalim Suleiman – North-Press Agency
Amina Omar, co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), said that both Russia and Turkey seek to recruit local people and send them to Libya to fight in a land other than Syria, indicating that the council, along with local tribes, will face this issue.
Omar indicated that they had held several meetings with important individuals from the region to stand up to their service demands and the economic situation in the region as well as the role of clans in the current stage, especially since there are plans aimed at recruiting tribesmen to send them to war zones like Libya.
Omar added, on the sidelines of a meeting held by the SDC and important dignitaries and tribal elders in the town of Tal Hamis in the Qamishli countryside, that these meetings come within the framework of creating greater cohesion between the tribes and warning them of what it called "plans targeting the region" and gathering around the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
The SDC co-chair indicated that Turkey and Russia are seeking to create discord among the people of the region by sending them to Libya to engage in fighting with conflicting parties on non-Syrian land, adding that the SDC "is now working to remove the tribesmen from the plans of these parties.”
Hakam Khalo, a member of the notables of North and East Syria, said, “The commission initiates meetings at the tribal level and connects them with officials in the Autonomous Administration and the Syrian Democratic Council,” indicating that several parties are investing in the deteriorating economic situation in the country, and that they “saw a need for communication between tribal elders in society and the Autonomous Administration’s institutions to give them confidence and solve the region’s problems.”
Khalo pointed out that the service and economic demands of the residents are "legitimate and urgent" and that they are seeking to solve them, especially the urgent services related to the daily life of the region’s residents.
The notables, which includes a number of social and tribal figures, organized four meetings over the past few days that included a number of sheikhs and elders of the tribes of the Jazira region with officials in the SDC, which is considered the political arm of the Autonomous Administration and the Syrian Democratic Forces.
On the other hand, Youssef Abdel-Othman al-Abo, a notable from Albo Salem clan of the Sharabi tribe, expressed his hope that the meetings will gather the region’s tribes with officials in the Autonomous Administration and produce results that benefit the region in all respects, especially those related to daily needs such as electricity, water, relief, and food materials.
Al-Abo stressed that the most important needs for the Janob al-Rad region in the countryside of Tel Hamis, are electricity and water, describing it as the poorest region in all of North and East Syria, and that it was very neglected even during the Syrian government's control of the region.