Kurdish opposition member says Assad regime throws weight behing YPG/PKK terror group in Syria

The PKK terrorist group's Syrian branch YPG's continued presence in Syria is because it has the backing of the Bashar Assad regime and Iran, according to a Syrian Kurdish opposition figure.

This arrangement aims to "prevent Kurds from taking part in the Syrian revolution and defending their rights," Kava Azizi, the representative of the Kurdish National Council (ENKS) in northern Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), told Anadolu Agency.

The United States is also working with the terrorist group "for its own interests," he said.

The YPG "does what they (US) need" and Washington "gives weapons" in return, he added.

The terrorist group does nothing for the Kurds and has no interest in solving our problems, he explained.

"Kurds and their issues are nowhere on their agenda. This is simply an armed organization with a Marxist ideology," he said, adding that the terrorist group's sole aim is to "attack oppressed people" to forcibly recruit "fresh blood."

He said the terrorist group is "not only involved in extortion and kidnappings for ransom in Syria but also sells oil and buys agricultural products from people at very low prices."

It also engages in extortion and ransoms money from people going to Syria from Europe and northern Iraq, he added.

This terrorist group "cannot solve the problems of Kurds anywhere, not just in Syria," Azizi reiterated.

Currently, it is "fighting for the destruction of the (Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government) KRG," he added.

He said the YPG/PKK has silenced the public and journalists as it does not want the world to hear the plight of the Kurds.

"This so-called organization (YPG/PKK) holds no legitimacy for us, just as it does not see us as a legitimate force," he said. "They treat us completely arbitrarily and abide by no laws."