Armed Kurdish volunteers stand guard at a checkpoint while patrolling overnight in Qamishli, northeastern Syria. AP
"The developments in Syria and the larger Middle East have a direct effect on the peace process in Turkey," said Zagros Hiwa, spokesman for the political wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party.
The attacks "against the Kurds are a plot and conspiracy against the peace process and they indicate a setback in the process", he said.
Syria's government and Kurdish forces on Saturday extended a truce by 15 days after the Kurds lost large areas to government forces during weeks of clashes.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) find themselves now restricted to Kurdish-majority areas in the country's north.
Turkey is a close ally of Syria's new leadership that overthrew Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, and which is now seeking to extend state control across Syria.
Ankara is simultaneously leading a drive to reach a settlement with the PKK -- listed as a terror group by Turkey and its Western allies.
Last year, the PKK said it was ending its four-decade insurgency in favour of democratic means but the process has largely stalled amid the stand-off in Syria.
Turkey accuses the Syrian Kurdish forces of being an offshoot of the PKK.
Hiwa said the PKK's "commitment to the peace process is a strategic issue".
But he added that "the new strategy does not exclude the urgency of self-defence against genocidal attacks".
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