Syrian Kurdish Leader Condemns Russia For Turkey 'green Light' In Afrin

Stockholm, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Mar, 2018 ) :A prominent Syrian Kurdish leader on Thursday criticised Russia for giving a "green light" to Turkey to carry out an offensive in Syria's Afrin region, saying it wouldn't have happened without Moscow's approval.

Turkish troops and allied Syrian forces seized control of the northwestern city of Afrin from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia on Sunday. In an interview with AFP during a visit to Stockholm, Saleh Muslim, the former co-chair of the main Syrian Kurdish political movement, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) said Turkey wouldn't have succeeded without Russian backing.

"We are disappointed by the Russians because they had some obligations when they came to Syria... they promised that they were going to protect the Syrian territory," Muslim said. "Russia didn't do anything (about the Turkish incursion), they gave the green light to Turkey and everybody is sure that if (Turkey) didn't have the green light from Russia then they wouldn't do it," he added.