Veteran politician in Syrian Kurdistan and head of the Kurdayati Movement in Syria (TKS), Hassan Sheikho, told KurdPress about the clashes broke out Wednesday, November 4, between the militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Peshmerga forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) that led to the killing of a Peshmerga and the wounding of three others "It is better for both sides to stop extremism and not go to war."

He continued: "In order to solve the problems between the two sides, it is necessary that neither side stays in Shingal and allow people to return to their homes."

He added: "For this, it is necessary to turn Shingal into a holy place like Vatican to reduce the intensity of disputes."

It is worth mention that the President General of the Kurdistan Islamic Party (PIK), a Kurdish party in Syria, called on the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to prevent another Kurdish-Kurdish war in a reference to a 1990s war between the KDP and the Patriotic union of Kurdistan (PUK), two ruling parties in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

"We call on all Kurdish movements and organizations to prevent the possibility of a fratricidal war between the PKK and the KDP," Hikmat Sarbiland told KurdPress in an interview last week.

Referring to the escalation of disputes and tensions between the PKK and the KDP, Mr. Sarbiland, said: "The differences between the two sides are very large and the two sides are not just the ones to be blamed in this situation; but there are some countries which want to ignite civil war and fratricidal war as a strategy between the two Kurdish parties, and especially the aggressor Turkish government which has pursued a very dirty policy against the Kurds and does not want the Kurdistan Region to be seen as a model for the Kurds, and for this reason, it is invading the Iraqi Kurdistan region under the pretext of the existence of the PKK. Thus it poses many military, human and environmental dangers in the region. Meanwhile the absence of a unity-making strategy is a great loss for the Kurds.

He continued: "Political differences between parties are a natural issue, but we, as the Islamic Party of Kurdistan, believe that the Kurds should never commit civil wars and fratricide. For us, civil war and fratricide is a red line and all Kurds must react against this issue. We have asked all Kurdish movements and also ask these two parties not to enter a war and not to use the language of enmity and hatred against each other and to start dialogue to form a delegation and therefore stop the media war and prevent any possible civil war and fratricide.”

"This responsibility is on the shoulders of the officials of the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Democratic Party of Kurdistan to take right positions against any conflict and to resolve the problems through dialogue," Mr. Sarbiland further noted.

The President General of the PIK said the management of these disputes is outside the will of the Kurds, and stressed that: "The fact is that a large part of this dispute is outside the will of the Kurds and the presence enemies of the Kurdish people can be felt in it. Other countries, the Turkish government in particular, want the differences among the Kurds to increase in order to seize the territory of the Kurdistan Region. Turkey is seeking to occupy the territory of the Kurdistan Region by all means under the pretext of the PKK presence in the region.”

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