Kurdish PYD leader: Time has proved us right

Interview by Karlos Zurutuza
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Salih Muslim Muhammad is co-chairman of the Democratic Union Party – PYD, the political force that has led the uprising of the Kurds in Syria since the war began, in March 2011. Links wanted to hear first-hand his take on the role his people are playing in a conflict that started five years ago.

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