(Zaman Al Wasl)- Confidential documents issued by the Syrian political intelligence before the Syrian Uprising in 2011 showed nominal lists of Syrian Kurds who joined the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in its armed conflict with Turkey.
The documents which issued by the political branch in Raqqa and obtained by Zaman Al Was reveal the names of tens of men and women who joined PKK and moved to fight in turkey.
The political security had never asked Damascus officials to arrest or take an action as Adana agreement between the Syrian regime and Turkey in 1998 which demands Syrian side to not providing any support for PKK fighters.
Names of fighter from both genders from Raqqa who joined training in Kurdestan’s mountains and remained there were included in documents, and they counted almost 50 persons, as well as names of Kurds of Raqqa who were killed were included in lists.
Another document specified Kurds who returned to Syria and sorted out their situation and counted 30 persons.
In 1998, Turkey and Syria were at the brink of war when Turkey condemned Syria for supporting the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization internationally by a number of countries and organizations, and Turkey threatened military action if Syria continued to shelter Abdullah Öcalan in Damascus.
However, relations have improved since October the same year when Adana Agreement was signed between the two country and Abdullah Öcalan was expelled from Damascus and Syria pledged to stop harbouring the PKK militants, later Öcalan was capture in Kenya as a result of security cooperation between the two countries.
The Democratic Union Party “PYD”, the Syrian branch of PKK which claims fighting al-Assad regime, however, documents published earlier by Zaman Al Wasl showed cooperation between the Syrian regime and People’s Protection Units “YPG”, the armed wing of PYD, in many aspects, one of them was protection oil fields in the Eastern region on Syria.
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