There is also a fear that, "if Syria were to destabilise further, the PKK could find a new safe haven in Syria or amongst the Syrian Kurds, similar to the situation in northern Iraq," Saban Kardas, assistant professor of international relations at TOBB University of Economics and Technology, told SETimes.
Takođe postoji strahovanje da bi „ako se Sirija dodatno destabilizuje, PKK mogao da pronađe novo utočište u Siriji ili među sirijskim Kurdima, slično situaciji u severnom Iraku“, rekao je za SETimes Šaban Kardaš, asistent za međunarodne odnose na TOBB Univerzitetu ekonomije i tehnologije.