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Asharq Al-Awsat: Kurds Make ‘Secret Offer’ to Damascus
The top commander of the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), Sipan Hemo, has recently visited Damascus and Moscow to make a “secret offer” on the group’s approval to hand over the border area with Turkey to the “Syrian State” in exchange for forming a local administration under Russian guarantees, informed sources told Asharq Al-Awsat on Friday.
The sources said the YPG is aiming to strike a deal on “filling the gap” following the US decision to withdraw from Syria, and to also cut off any Turkish interference in the north and northeast of Syria.
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Update #1: YPG Offers to Surrender its Zones in Syria for Kurdish Autonomy - Reports (Sputnik)
Update #2: Deal with Syria regime 'inevitable': Kurdish commander (AFP)
WNU Editor: If this report is true, the Syrian government is going to accept the offer and deploy its forces along the Syrian-Turkish border that is controlled by the Kurds. The Kurdish demand for autonomy is going to be a problem.
