ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A delegation from the Turkey-based pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) has arrived in northeast Syria (Rojava) to attend the intra-Kurdish conference scheduled for Saturday.
DEM Party said in a statement on X that their senior member Serhat Eren and lawmakers Saliha Aydeniz, Gulcan Kacmaz and Mehmet Kamac as well as Keskin Bayindir, the co-chair of DEM Party’s sister party, Democratic Regions Party (DBP), arrived in Rojava through the Kurdistan Region “to attend the Kurdish National Conference.”
Rojava’s ruling Democratic Union Party (PYD) and opposition Kurdish National Council (ENKS/KNC) have agreed to hold an intra-Kurdish conference in Qamishli on Saturday, aiming to unify Kurdish ranks and collaborate on shaping the future of Kurds in Syria."
Fasla Yousef, a leadership member of the ENKS, told Rudaw on Thursday that all preparations for the conference have been completed."
“Around 300-400 people are expected to attend the conference,” she said, adding that more invitations are being sent to people.
“No one has been marginalized,” she stressed, noting that additional invitations are still being sent out.
When asked whether anyone from outside Rojava had been invited to the unprecedented event, she said she was not aware.
Kurds from areas under Damascus control have not been invited, “because we do not have strong ties with them. This is one of the weak points of the Kurdish political movement,” she explained.
Following the conference, the PYD and ENKS are expected to form a joint delegation to present a unified list of Kurdish demands.
