ENKS delegation met officials in Ankara in relation to the attack during Newroz

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A Kurdish National Council of Syria (ENKS) delegation met officials of the Foreign Ministry in Ankara about the four Kurds killed by the Turkey-supported Ahrar al-Sharqiya in Afrin because they put up a Newroz fire.

The delegation was composed of Abdulhakim Beshar, the representative of the Syria Opposition Coalition, and Shelal Gedo and Zuheyr Muhammed, representatives of the ENKS, Rudaw reported.

Besides the last killing in Jinderes, the violations in the last five years in Afrin were discussed.

Shelal Gedo told Rudaw that they had communicated to the delegation from Turkey that armed groups were carrying out terrorist activities.

"We will tell about the problems to all countries"

Gedo also reminded that four people who realized the attack in Jinderes were arrested while two were released.

"We do not trust the courts controlled by the Syrian opposition. We want the perpetrators to be tried by Turkey. Turkey is following the issue carefully and they told us that they will be trying to help," Gedo is reported to have said.

Accordingly, he has also stated that they have also met a high-level delegation from the US in İstanbul the day before, and also met with another from France. "We will try to tell about the problems people have in Afrin, in Jinderes, and in the other Kurdish regions to all the countries that we can reach," he said.

"There is no law, no government"

Gedo told Rudaw that they had named some groups and told the delegation from Turkey that these groups were in terrorist activities. "We cannot accept that these groups stay in the Kurdish regions any longer," he said. "They have limitless power in the regions they reign and there is no law or government that can stop them. They do everything they want to do. If we do not find a solution to this problem, there is great anger in society already, people are not staying in their homes any longer. They are in the streets, the people are not afraid of the rifles of these groups anymore." he added.

What happened?

As Kurdish families across the earthquake-damaged Jinderis and the rest of Afrin were celebrating Newroz, a verbal dispute erupted between a member of a Turkish-supported faction and Farhan Din Othman in front of his family home. Witnesses said that the fighter ordered Othman to put out a small fire on the roof as part of Newroz celebrations.

The fighter then threw a rock at Othman as he was sitting with his nephew outside, went to the faction's neighborhood base, in a house just 15 to 20 meters away, and came back with two other men armed.

Ferhan Osman (43), İsmail Osman (38), Muhammed İsmail (18) and Muhammed Osman (42) from the same family were killed in the attack and two people were injured.

Protest demonstrations were organized after the killing. It was announced that the perpetrators were captured after the protests

About ENKS

ENKS was founded on October 26 2011 in Erbil, Iraq with the initiative of KDP President Mesut Barzani and Turkey.

The founding principle of ENKS is to construct a state in which the ethnic rights of the Kurds are under protection, which is decentralized and has a democratic and parliamentary regime.

Politically ENKS places itself against YPG/PYD. YPG and ENKS have three times taken steps in 2021 and 2014 for the two groups to join forces in Syria in the regions where the Kurds live, but all attempts failed. (RT/PE)