According to the Nova agency, the party of the Democratic Union (Pyd), a group of Syrian Kurds part of the opposition to the government of Damascus, must not participate in the Constitutional Commission for Syria, established at the Congress of Sochi on 30 January last. . Turkey asks the UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, as reported today [...]
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The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced on Saturday the start of operations by the Ankara army and the allied Syrian militias (FSA) in Afrin and, subsequently, in Manbij, against the positions of the Ypg, party militias of the Democratic Union (Pyd), a Syrian Kurdish formation that is part of the opposition to the government of Damascus. The operation, called "Olive Branch", [...]
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