(23. Juni) Al-Monitor: The YPG is the force that fights ISIS most effectively in Syria. Did the Western countries notice this after the fall of Mosul? Have any Western governments contacted you since then?

Muslim: No, none. They are still as if in shock. Nobody contacted us. There is nothing concrete.

Al-Monitor: Did the Turkish government contact you? Turkey is under direct ISIS threat.

Muslim: No. There was no such request.

Al-Monitor: From time to time, we hear National Intelligence service (MIT) officials are meeting you. And at the moment one of your delegations is in Turkey.

Muslim: There is no such contact with MIT at the moment. If there are secret things going on without our knowledge, I don’t know,