Turkey, Russia and Iran have agreed on who will be invited to the National Dialogue Congress on Syria set to take place in Russia’s Black Sea city of Sochi, and the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) is not among them, a Foreign Ministry official has told Hürriyet Daily News.
Russia started sending invitations for the Sochi meeting, in which some 1,600 participants are expected to take part, the official said.
Syrian Kurds will be represented by the Kurdish National Congress, a group that also takes part in the High Negotiation Committee, along with some representatives of Kurdish tribes and the civic society in Syria’s Kurdish populated areas determined by Russia, the official added.