DHAKA: Syria’s largest Kurdish party has said it plans to form an transitional administration.

The administration would rule Kurdish-majority areas in the northeast until the broader conflict is over, reports the BBC.

Kurdish groups in northern Syria have tried to stay out of the civil war between the government and rebels.

However, Islamist rebels have moved into Kurdish-controlled areas in recent months, causing increasing clashes between them and Kurdish militias.

The Democratic Union Party (PYD) announced the move after two days of talks in the town of Qamishli in north-eastern Syria.

Alan Semo, the PYD’s UK-based representative, told the BBC his party was not seeking to carve out a separate Kurdish state.

Semo said the region would be ‘integrated in future in a united, democratic, plural Syria’, adding that neighbouring Turkey, which has fought a long war against Kurdish rebels, had nothing to fear from the move.

‘I think Turkey will realise that this step is not a threat to any regional or international or global stability, it is temporary,’ he added.

BDST: 2035 HRS, NOV 13, 2013
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