Terror organization PKK/YPG conducts lobbying activities in United States

Published December 29,2023

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The PKK/YPG terrorist group has signed a contract with the U.S.-based public relations agency Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck for lobbying actions.

The terrorist group has signed a 6-month lobbying contract with the U.S.-based public relations agency. The firm guarantees to “influence U.S. decision-makers.”

According to data obtained from information shared beneath the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) by the Anadolu Agency (AA), the so-called “Syrian Democratic Council,” the Syrian extension of the PKK terrorist group PYD/YPG, signed a 6-month lobbying contract with the U.S.-based public relations agency on October 12 to hold out lobbying actions in Washington.

The contract contains “government relations services and strategic consultancy on issues related to the U.S. government.”

In this context, the agency has been tasked with serving to the terrorist group develop and provoke relations with the U.S. administration, particularly concerning points associated to northeastern Syria.

The contract additionally contains educating decision-makers within the U.S. administration concerning the alleged “North and East Syrian Autonomous Administration being the best solution for a permanent solution to the Syrian crisis.”

Within the scope of the companies to be supplied, the contract additionally includes organizing conferences with leaders of the House of Representatives and the Senate, in addition to senior officers within the Department of State, Department of Defense, and Department of Commerce, as nicely as United Nations (UN) organizations. The contract anticipates the agency lobbying for investments in northeastern Syria.

Nadeam Elshami, who served because the Chief of Staff to former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and is actively working for the agency, is listed as the person who will perform lobbying actions on behalf of the terrorist group.

The terrorist group has agreed to pay Brownstein $50,000 monthly from October to the top of March. Unless the events agree on new phrases, the contract will robotically renew for one more 6-month interval. The PKK/YPG terrorist group had beforehand signed an settlement with the agency Jim Dornan Strategies in 2021 to conduct lobbying actions in Washington, D.C.