SYRIAN Kurdish leaders have warned that Monday’s peace talks in Kazakhstan are “doomed to fail” after they were excluded from the negotiations at Turkey’s insistence.

The Democratic Union Party, the parent organisation of the YPG militia fighting to capture the Isis stronghold of Raqqa, issued the warning at its second conference on Wednesday.

Party co-chair Saleh Muslim said the talks in the Kazakh capital Astana would be pointless without his party’s participation. “Excluding the Syrian Democratic Forces from the talks is a huge mistake,” he said.