Turkish accusation against Salih Muslim is false, illegal and lying. the Turkish regime charges against Saleh Muslim are incorrect and unlawful

Turkish accusation against Salih Muslim is false, illegal and lying.
the Turkish regime charges
 against Saleh Muslim are incorrect and unlawful
The Turkish regime has killed more than 3500 people in the northern Kurdistan between 2015 and the beginning of 2016. All of whom was killed  by the Turkish regime  were children and civilians.
From the beginning of 2018 the Turkish regime attacked the Kurdish area Efrin from the beginning until the Turkish regime killed more than 450 civilians and children were killed by the Turkish regime's attack against Efrin.
In principle, the Turkish regime is a war crimes regime

Syrian Kurdish leader Salih Muslim arrested in Prague: party

PRAGUE,— Syrian Kurdish leader Saleh Muslim was arrested in Prague at the behest of Turkey, the main Kurdish-led political coalition said on Sunday.

Muslim was the co-chair of the PYD party, the major component of the coalition that runs autonomous Syrian Kurdistan region (Rojava) in north Syria. Ankara sees the PYD and its militia affiliate, the YPG, as extensions of the Kurdish PKK movement that has waged a decades-long insurgency on Turkish soil – though the groups say they are independent.

A statement from the TEV-DEM coalition, of which Muslim is a member, said Turkey had issued an arrest warrant for him and he was detained on Saturday. “We condemn this illegal act,” it said.

The arrest came after Turkey called on the Czech Republic to arrest the former co-leader and sent warrants for his arrest to Prague, Turkish officials said.

Czech police confirmed they arrested a 67-year-old foreigner who was wanted in Turkey and he is currently detained. They did not name the person in question.

Earlier this month, Turkey announced a $1 million bounty for the former co-chair of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the ruling Kurdish party in Syrian Kurdistan, and added him to the Interior Ministry’s ‘Red List.’

The award of 4 million Turkish lira was offered for Muslim’s arrest over his alleged links to the PKK and Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK).

Salih, a 67-year-old native of Kobane, founded the PYD in 2003 and served as co-chair of the party form 2013 to 2017, when he stepped down.

Meanwhile, the co-leader of PYD representative in Iraq’s Kurdistan region Kalsum Ali said Muslim has been held in Prague and that Turkey demanded for his extradition.

U.S. regards the PYD and its powerful military wing YPG/YPJ, as key ally against Islamic State IS and the most effective fighting force against IS in Syria and has provided them with arms, air support as well as the military advisers. The YPG has seized swathes of Syria from IS.

Ankara, which still denies the constitutional existence of its own Kurds numbering to 22.5 million, fears the creation of a Kurdish autonomous region or Kurdish state in Syrian Kurdistan could encourage separatism amongst its own Kurds.

In 2013, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) — the political branch of the powerful People’s Protection Units (YPG) — has established three autonomous Cantons of Jazeera, Kobani and Afrin and a Kurdish government across Syrian Kurdistan in 2013.

On March 17, 2016, Kurdish authorities announced the creation of a “federal region” made up of those semi-autonomous regions in Syrian Kurdistan.

On January 20, 2018 Turkey and Ankara-backed Syrian fighters, seen as mercenary fighters for Turkey, launched a military operation against the Kurdish YPG militia in the Kurdish Afrin region in Syrian Kurdistan.

Turkey is using YPG as pretext to invade the Syrian Kurdish region in order not allow Kurds to establish an autonomous region in Syrian Kurdistan, analysts say.

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