The democratic union party (PYD) has issued a statement condemning the assassination of the general secretariat member of the Kurdish national council Mahmud Wali-Abu Jandi, as well as offering his family and relatives condolences.

The statement said the party "received with deep sadness and sorrow the news of the assassination of the general secretariat of the Kurdish national council wishing the bereaved forgiveness and mercy and wishing his family courage and patience to bear the loss". The statement also added that the party "condemn all kinds of killings whatever the reasons are. We have no doubt that those brute hands which assassinated Mr. Abo Jandy are not welling the Kurdish people any good and try to create an atmosphere of skepticism and confusion within the Kurdish society and the Kurdish rank especially in this sensitive stage, where all Kurdish parties and forces are unified under the umbrella of the supreme Kurdish committee".