"PKK
and Syrian Kurds are the spearhead in the fight against ISIS,” –
Hadi al-Amri
Hadi
al-Amri is The head of the Shiite Badr Organization
ERBIL,
Kurdistan Region – The head of the Shiite Badr Organization, Hadi
al-Amri, said Monday that Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters
and its affiliates were spearheading the war against Islamic State
(ISIS) in Syria.
“PKK
and Syrian Kurds are the spearhead in the fight against ISIS,” said
Amri. “Turkey continues to assist ISIS,” he said.
His
comments came as Turkey launched a crackdown on the outlawed PKK,
with raids across the country and air strikes on the group’s Qandil
Mountain base in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
Amri
said that the Turkish crackdown was in response to Kurdish gains in
Syria against ISIS near the Turkish border.
“Turkey
has not changed its stance towards ISIS, and what happened over the
previous days came days after Kurdish forces deployed on Turkey’s
border. These actions by Turkey indicate the country’s unstoppable
assistance for ISIS," Amri said.
He
praised the role of Kurdish forces, especially the PKK-affiliated
Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) fighters in battles against ISIS.
“They
have achieved great victories against ISIS, and now they are in
control of a vast majority of Kurdish territories in northern Syria,”
according to Amri.
“The
end of ISIS is not in Iraq but in Syria; they must be taken out there
first, then Iraq," Amri said.
He
claimed that, unless Iran helped Iraq militarily in the fight against
ISIS, it and the Gulf Arab counties would fall to ISIS.
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