Barzani: we train Syrian Kurds so they defend their territories
23/07/2012 23:30ERBIL,
July 23 (AKnews) – Iraqi Kurds are training Syrian Kurds militarily so that
they can go back to Syria and defend their towns against the Syrian regime, Kurdistan
Region’s President Massoud Barzani has said.
Barzani
has confirmed to Al Jazeera for the first time the presence of a military
training camp for Syrian refugees in Kurdistan Region. The statement comes as
the Free Syrian Army and the opposition forces claim more gains against the
Bashar al-Asad regime every day.
Barzani
has said in the interview with Al Jazeera that “A good number of the young
Kurds who fled have been trained. We do not want to interfere directly in the
situation but they have been trained,”
The
trained Syrian Kurds have not been sent back home yet, according to the
interview, but will be deployed to Syria as Syrian forces retreat “fill any security
vacuum"
The
trained Kurdish Syrian will take orders from a committee that brings together
two major Kurdish opposition forces in Syria, according to Barzani.
“They
have not been sent to Syria. They are still here - if this high committee
requires them to go they still could - if not they will wait for the situation
to be sorted out because these people are from these areas and they will go
back eventually… This was aimed at filling the vacuum that will be created.” Barzani
has told Al Jazeera.
RY/AKnews
