Al-Batran: Turkey could be held accountable under international law rather than keeping silent

The Turkish state continues to send gunships and mercenaries to Libya, and intervenes militarily to occupy parts in Syria, Iraq and Cyprus. All these violations are accompanied by war crimes committed against the indigenous population, at a time when it is necessary to return to the international conventions for international security and not to keep silent about the Turkish violations in the region.

To learn about the international law view on Turkish violations, our news agency met with human rights activist and researcher Abd al-Rahman al-Batran, who indicated that the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries occupied several cities in northern Syria, and committed atrocities against the indigenous population.

Al-Batran referred to the crimes of the Turkish occupation in the Syrian territories by saying: "The Turkish occupation committed the crimes of murder, ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of the population. These crimes go under war crimes, and crimes against humanity, according to the Geneva Convention of 1949 and Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court."   

 International conventions condemn violations of Turkey

Al-Batran affirmed that the Turkish occupation, during its occupation of the Syrian cities, with flimsy pretexts, struck against the wall the international laws, the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights issued in 1948, and the four Geneva Conventions of 1949.

And that is because Turkey threatens the regions of NE Syria as a result of the nascent democratic experience in it, and violates the United Nations Charter: "According to the fourth paragraph of Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, which prevents countries from resorting to force or threat, we note that Turkey occupied territories of Syria and threatening other regions. "

In the same context: “The first paragraph of Article 33 of the Charter of the United Nations states that in the event of a conflict between states, conflict parties must resort to arbitration and confrontations, or refer the matter to regional organizations, except that when Turkey occupied the areas of northeast Syria, It did not resort to these mechanisms and violated all the United Nations charters.

Al-Batran pointed out that Turkey has many colonial ambitions, and problems with neighboring countries, including problems with Greece over the Aegean Sea: “Turkey has a long history of criminality.

He stressed that despite the issuance of a decision by the United Nations Security Council to leave the Turkish forces from there, they are still occupying  Cyprus and are searching for oil and gas in their territorial waters, although Cyprus is a country in the United Nations and in the European Union.

Turkey is a member of NATO and violates its charters

He pointed out that although Turkey is a member of NATO, but it violates the Charter of NATO, at the same time, it demands applying Article 4 and 5 of the Charter of NATO, but the response came that Turkey is acting away from the goals and the Charter of NATO. There are threats from countries that are members in NATO, imposing sanctions on Turkey as a result of its occupation of parts of Syria and Iraq.

Batran pointed out that Turkey sent Syrian mercenaries to Libya "to support the non-national Al-Sarraj government. It also concluded agreements with the Al-Sarraj government to search for gas and oil. It has received international condemnations from the United Nations and the European Union as a result of its foreign interventions in many countries of the region."

He pointed out that the Turkish actions "indicate that Turkey seeks Ottoman in a new way, as Turkey interferes in the internal affairs of all neighboring countries and the whole region."

Activist and human rights researcher Abdul Rahman Al-Batran explained that Turkey can be held accountable instead of international silence, adding: “Turkey can be held accountable by referring all files to the UN Security Council, but what we observe is that all international bodies and organizations are the ones who make capitalist modernity, so decisions are applied. According to the interests of these countries, while other decisions are ignored, and the situation prevails in international silence and turning a blind eye. "

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ANHA