Le PYD kurde annonce unilatéralement la création d’une région fédérale (autonome) au nord-est de la Syrie (Qamishli-Kobané), en pleine discussion à Genève (dont les Kurdes ne font pas partie) :
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BEIRUT (AP) — A powerful Kurdish party announced plans Wednesday to declare a federal region in northern Syria, an idea promptly dismissed by Turkey and Syrian government negotiators at U.N.-brokered peace talks.
The declaration was expected to be made at the end of a Kurdish conference that began Wednesday in the town of Rmeilan, in Syria’s northern Hassakeh province.
It comes as the Damascus government and Western- and Saudi-backed rebels are holding peace talks with a U.N. envoy in Geneva on ways to end the devastating civil war, which this week entered its sixth year.
The main Syrian Kurdish group, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), and its military wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), have so far been excluded from those talks so as not to anger Turkey, despite Russia’s insistence that they be part of the negotiations. Ankara views the group as a terrorist organization.
Et dans le même temps le YPG kurde semble mettre un coup de pression au gouvernement en assiégeant le quartier-général des Forces de Défense Nationale (milice pro-régime) dans la ville kurde de Qamishli.