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YPG/PKK offers Daesh terrorists to move into Turkey

YPG/PKK and Daesh reached deal that allows Daesh terrorists to leave YPG/PKK camps in Syria

Ali Murat Alhas  | 02.03.2019 - Update : 02.03.2019
YPG/PKK offers Daesh terrorists to move into Turkey

By Levent Tok, Omer Koparan, Adham Kako

DEIR EZ-ZOR/AZAZ 

The YPG/PKK terrorist group has offered Daesh members in Syria to transfer them and their families into neighboring Turkey.

A U.S.-brokered deal was reached last month between the YPG/PKK and Daesh terrorists in the town of Bagoz in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province.

According to Anadolu Agency reporters in the area, the deal allows Daesh members and their families to stay in YPG/PKK camps in Syria if they wish.

Daesh members who don’t want to stay in the camps were promised alternative routes, including into the Euphrates Shield Operation zone and Afrin -- which were liberated following Turkish military campaigns – or into areas controlled by the Bashar al-Assad regime.

Under the deal, the YPG/PKK will provide a special travel document to Daesh members seeking to leave the camps, the correspondents said.

With this document, Daesh terrorists and their families will be able to reside in the territories occupied by YPG/PKK.

Furthermore, injured Daesh members will be treated in hospitals held by YPG/PKK and will be discharged within two months.

The Daesh terrorist group currently controls only two percent of territory in Syria.

The U.S.-backed YPG/PKK terrorist group, meanwhile, controls some 28 percent of Syrian territory and some 70 percent of the country’s oil fields.

The Assad regime controls some 60 percent of territory whereas the military opposition and anti-regime armed groups hold some 10 percent.

Syria has only just begun to emerge from a devastating conflict that began in 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on demonstrators with unexpected ferocity.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed or displaced in the conflict, mainly by regime airstrikes targeting opposition-held areas.

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