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The head of the Turkish occupation entity Erdogan announced his real goal of the invasion of northern Syria, saying: the areas of northern Syria does not suit the Kurds!
The Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared in a television interview on the government channel (TRT) about the so-called “safe zone” and he speaks out his true intention behind the military operations launched by him in recent years from the invasion of the “Euphrates Shield” and through the invasion Olive Branch “, ending at the invasion of the” Spring of Peace “, which resulted in the occupation of two new areas in the north of Syria,” Sere Kaniye/ Ras al-Ain and “Gire Spi / Tel Abyad.”
The head of the Turkish entity did not hide his expansionist and settlement intentions towards the northern Syrian areas and his objectives from the successive invasions and incursions launched by the Turkish occupation army accompanied by extremist Islamic militias from the remnants of (Al-Qaeda and ISIS), which he collected under the names of the deceptive “Free Syrian Army – National Army” he expresses his objective of all operations and on the platform of the General Assembly of the United Nations, the resettlement of about two million Syrian refugees who are not residents of the region, during a session of the United Nations before the start of the “spring of peace”, which began on the ninth of this month, which resulted in The occupation of the towns of Sere Kaniye / Ras al-Ain and Gire Spi / Tel Abyad, causing the displacement of more than 300,000 citizens from different parts of the region, including Arabs, Syrians, Kurds, Armenians and Assyrians.
The Turkish occupation army launched on August 24, 2016, accompanied by Islamic militias, the so-called “Euphrates Shield” invasion under the pretext of fighting ISIS, although the Turkish government did not act for the duration of the terrorist organization’s control over the Syrian-Turkish border areas According to Western reports, the Turkish government cooperated closely with ISIS and provided it with great facilities, but once the international alliance against ISIS and its cooperation with SDF forces had taken over large areas of ISIS, the Turkish government preceded time to launch similar operations under the banner of fighting ISIS. Although the real goal is to prevent SDF from entering those areas, as well as the displacement of Kurds, where villages anx several towns in the countryside of Albab and Jarablus are empty of its Kurdish population after displacing them.
The Turkish occupation completed its plans for demographic change and demographic engineering of the Syrian regions in line with the plans and aspirations to annihilate the Kurds and revive the Ottoman Empire on January 20, 2018, when the Turkish occupation army accompanied by Islamic militias known as the “National Army” of the Muslim Brotherhood Organization started ‘olive branch”against the autonomous Kurdish region of Afrin, which resulted in the occupation of the Kurdish region on the eighteenth of March 2018, causing the displacement of more than 500 thousand Kurdish citizens, in addition to the settlement of hundreds of thousands of settlers from many areas in the vicinity of Damascus, Homs and others, they are armed with most of them working for the Turkish occupation and associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
On October 18, 11 human rights organizations in the Middle East and North Africa expressed deep concern over the Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria and Turkey’s plan to resettle Syrian refugees in the region, following US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops.
From the region, in this context, human rights organizations raised eight main demands to stand up to the Turkish plans for demographic change, the most important of which is to investigate the human rights situation in northeastern Syria, through the International Independent Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic.
In addition to putting an immediate end to Turkish military operations in northeastern Syria, which pose a threat to international peace and security, and to put pressure on Turkey from the international community to end its military operations and withdraw immediately from the region, and work to comply with international law and give priority to the protection of civilians and stop attacking infrastructure indispensable to the survival of the population, such as water facilities.
Besides ensuring that Turkey does not use any EU funding under the Refugee Agreement between the EU and Turkey, forcibly returns Syrian refugees, obliges Turkey and its allied groups to international humanitarian and human rights law, and halts the confiscation of property, looting, arbitrary arrests and destruction of cultural property.
The statement was signed by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, the Palestinian Organization for Human Rights (Human Rights), the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), the Syrian Center for Justice and Accountability (SJAC), the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the Independent Organization for Human Rights, and the Campaign for Syria. , Syrians for Truth and Justice – STJ, Dulati Foundation, Yazdina Foundation, Ornamo Organization.
