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YPG Offers to Surrender its Zones in Syria for Kurdish Autonomy - Reports
YPG Offers to Surrender its Zones in Syria for Kurdish Autonomy - Reports
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DAMASCUS (Sputnik) - Syrian Kurdish YPG leader Sipan Hemo offered last month to hand over control of Kurdish-held lands to the Syrian government in return for... 05.01.2019, Sputnik International
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YPG Offers to Surrender its Zones in Syria for Kurdish Autonomy - Reports
DAMASCUS (Sputnik) - Syrian Kurdish YPG leader Sipan Hemo offered last month to hand over control of Kurdish-held lands to the Syrian government in return for Kurdish autonomy, media said Saturday.
The Kurdish militia commander came to Russia’s Hmeimim base in western Syria days after the US president announced troop withdrawal from the country, Asharq al-Awsat reported.
5 January 2019, 21:04 GMT
Hemo then travelled to Damascus to tell Syrian authorities that YPG was ready to give up control of the Syrian-Turkish border, before going to Moscow on December 29.
In Russia, the Kurdish leader asked for assurances and suggested that Moscow bring out of mothballs a draft constitution it had proposed for Syria, which guaranteed the Kurdish right for self-determination.
READ MORE: Manbij Deal a ‘Gateway to Rapprochement’ Between Kurds and Damascus
The publication linked this trip to the surprise handover of the flashpoint Manbij city to the Syrian army on December 28, which was confirmed nearly simultaneously by the Syrian government and Kurdish forces.
