Vice-president of the Syrian Opposition Coalition (SOC), Abdel Hakim Bashar, called for a new uprising and confronting the danger of the PKK terrorist organization, which he said is no less dangerous than the Assad regime.
Bashar was speaking in front of the representation office of the Kurdish National Council in the Iraqi Kurdistan region on the occasion of the 18th anniversary of the March 2004 uprising. He said that the March 2004 uprising was the real beginning of the Syrian revolution that erupted in 2011.
Bashar said that those who rose up against the tyranny of the Assad regime’s forces in March 2004 foiled the regime’s plots and broke the barrier of fear and intimidation. He added that those are not incapable of standing up to a backward alien group that was brought from abroad to control the people of the region.
Bashar pointed out that the PKK terrorist organization continues to use Kurdish youth as a cannon fodder to serve its own plans and non-national agendas.
Bashar stressed that hundreds of thousands of Kurds were displaced by the PKK terrorist organization, adding that people in the Kurdish-majority areas live in abject poverty even though these areas are the food basket of Syria.
Bashar called on the people of the region, including the Kurds, Arabs, Syriacs, and other components to join hands in order to force the PKK terrorist organization from the Syrian al-Jazira region.
In a statement on the occasion of the 18th anniversary of the March 2004 uprising, the General Secretariat of the Kurdish National Council called on the international community to assume its responsibilities with regard to the plight of the Syrian people and expedite the implementation of UN resolutions, especially Resolution 2254.
(Source: SOC’s Media Department)
