NEWS CENTER – Ilham Ehmed, Co-Chair of Foreign Relations for the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, stated that the transitional government in Damascus has declared war on the Kurds.

 

Ilham Ehmed, Co-Chair of Foreign Relations for the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES), issued a statement on her X virtual media regarding the Syrian Transitional Government’s increasingly ongoing attacks on the Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh in Aleppo.

 

Ilham Ehmed said: “The Syrian Transitional Government's Ministry of Defense has declared war on the densely populated neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh. This is a war of annihilation against the Kurdish people, who were also subjected to oppression by the former regime. The vast majority of the neighbourhood residents are people who were forcibly displaced from Afrin. These two neighborhoods had already been under a suffocating siege by groups affiliated with the Ministry of Defense for a long time. Although the neighborhood administrations remained committed to the April 1 agreement, the transitional government did not comply with it. We made serious efforts to participate in the negotiations, but the Ministry of Defense refuses to engage in dialogue.”

 

She added: “We call on government officials to take responsibility for what is happening in the mentioned neighborhoods and to find realistic and lasting solutions to the problems through dialogue, avoiding war and violence. The Syrian people have suffered enough from wars. We call on all Syrians, especially Syrian youths, to reject violence, stand for justice, and renounce war.”