Kurdistan Syrian Kurds call on EU countries to help create safe zone in Syria

Top officials from the Kurdish-backed administrations in northeastern Syria have called on European states to create an international force and safe zone and not to abandon the Syrian Kurds.

“If they [Europe] don’t meet their commitments, they are effectively abandoning us,” Aldar Khalil, a top Syrian Kurdish official, told AFP on Sunday.

Khalil called on France, in particular, to work with the United Nations to create a buffer zone along the border with Turkey. He said it could be modeled on the UN peace forces in Lebanon.

“France can table a proposal to the Security Council on our protection, suggesting an international force between us and the Turks – of which it would be part – or to protect our airspace.”

Abdul Hamid al-Muhabash, the co-chair of the Democratic Autonomous Administration (DAA) in northeastern Syria, told Kurdistan 24 that any buffer zone should be under “international sponsorship and the UN.”

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