<p style="text-align: left;">In a brief article, former Turkish Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis said the Syrian government is negotiating with Kurds to see how they can be incorporated into the country's future structure, but the U.S. wants to use the Kurds as a means of pressure against Bashar Assad's regime.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">In an article published in Arab News, he said the Kurds will try to improve their capabilities in the process based on the support they receive from the U.S. and Russia, but there is a long way away until the game is over in Syria, and various actors in Syria are interacting to determine the final outcome in the war-torn country.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">In his view, the U.S. interaction with Turkey's Kurds is different from its behavior with other Kurds, for example in Syria. The former Turkish foreign minister says the U.S. considers the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to be a terrorist group, and even helped Turkey to arrest the former leader of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, and transfer him from Kenya to Turkey. Meanwhile, American authorities reject any ties between the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the PKK.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">Reporter’s code: 50101</p>