Members of European Parliament call for an investigation on Turkey's crimes in northern Syria

Sixty-eight members of the European Parliament called for forming a delegation to travel to northern Syria and collect information about the situation in the areas of the Autonomous Administration, now and in the past, as groups supported by Turkey have been accused of committing human rights violations and war crimes, according to the Turkish European Commission civil website.

In an open letter to the European Parliament President David Sassoli, members of the European Parliament called on the Turkish government to stop its political, economic and military support for all groups involved in the systematic human rights violations documented in the United Nations report on Syria.

Of note, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry has concluded that the mercenary groups affiliated with Turkey have committed systematic looting, sexual violence, confiscation of property, and widespread arbitrary deprivation of liberty.

Members of the European Parliament pointed out that “the victims, most of them Kurds, who fled these atrocities are currently in the Autonomous Administration regions of northeastern Syria,” calling on Sassoli to start “dialogue with the political body for the Autonomous Administration of Northern and Eastern Syria, and to enter into talks with the displaced persons from areas under Turkish occupation."

Members of the European Parliament said that after further investigations, the prosecution of the perpetrators of rights violations and war crimes could begin within the framework of the International Criminal Court.

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