Syrian Kurds have no intention to establish independent federation

A leading Syrian Kurdish figure stressed Tuesday that the Kurds have no intention to establish an independent political entity, or Kurdish government, in the Kurdish-dominated areas in Syria.

His remarks came after the Syrian Kurds declared in a statement the formation of a transitional autonomous administration in Kurdish-dominated areas in northeastern the country.

"The Kurds have no intention to establish an independent political entity, and have no intention to separate from the Syrian state," Omar Ossi, head of the National Kurdish Initiative and a member of the Syrian Parliament, told Xinhua Tuesday.

"What happened today was a meeting to lay the foundations of a temporary autonomy that would last for six months and to prepare for local civil elections, and a local administration in the Kurdish region," Ossi said.

He added that "this local civilian autonomous administration will be dissolved once the Syrian crisis is over and the official Syrian institutions are back to normal work." "There is no way to establish a Kurdish federation in northern Syria akin to what happened in Iraq, and what has been published by the media is exaggerated and the Kurds will remain part of the Syrian social fabric," he stressed.

Since the outbreak of the conflict in Syria nearly three years ago, the Kurds in the country have strived to keep the rebels out of the areas they control in order to avoid sparking a confrontation with the Syrian army and to ensure their territory remained free of violence.

In mid-2012, Syrian troops withdrew from the majority of the Kurdish areas, and Kurdish militia became responsible for security there.

However, fighting broke out recently in northern Syria between the Kurds and al-Qaida-affiliated al-Nusra Front. The Kurds gained ground in a number of areas in the north, mainly in Ras al-Eyn area, which is adjacent to Turkey as well as in Kobani and Tal Abyadh near the crossing border between Syria and Turkey.

The Kurds pose some 15 percent of Syria's 23 million inhabitants with most living in the north of the embattled country.

So far, there has been no comment from the Syrian government.