<h1>Designation of Kurdish militias as security threats drives talks linking disbandment demands to economic recovery and refugee policy.</h1> Talks focus on Syria's economic recovery and managing cross-border security risks posed by Kurdish-led forces. Turkey regards the SDF militias as an extension of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party and is pressing for their disbandment, while Turkish-backed groups are engaging the SDF to push them from the border. Mediated negotiations between the interim Syrian leadership and SDF representatives are seeking compromises on the political and territorial future of Kurdish forces, linking refugee management, border security, and reconstruction to arrangements about the disposition or reintegration of those armed units.