SDC holds symposium in Aleppo to discuss occupation of Afrin issue

The Syrian Democratic Council organized the symposium in Afrin Hall, located in Sheqayyef region of Aleppo city, in which political parties and independent Syrian personalities from various Syrian governorates, in addition to a number of representatives of human rights and civil organizations attended.

The symposium included two main axes, namely "the Turkish state's ambitions and agendas historically in the region," and "The Turkish state and its mercenaries' violations towards the peoples of Afrin region with its various segments, beliefs, and political affiliations, in addition to the search for ways to confront them and how to address their negative repercussions on the region."

The symposium began with holding a minute of silence in tribute for the martyrs' souls, followed by the reading of the first axis by the Head of the Executive Body of the Syrian Democratic Council, Ilham Ahmed. She said: "The Turkish occupation in Afrin aims to purify the cultural and ethnic reality in Afrin, and to disperse all components that used to coexist by disguising themselves in the cloak of the Islamic religion."

Hiding behind religion to control the region

Ilham added: "The Turkish state is still seeking to implement its old policies that it practiced four centuries ago during the Ottoman Empire, as the occupation practiced its exclusionary policies in the name of Islam with the aim of controlling and occupying the peoples of the region."

Ilham noted during her speech: "The Russian withdrawal from Afrin before its occupation, and leaving the peoples to meet their destiny indicates that states are concerned with their interests in the first place, and not to support peoples in determining their destiny."

Regarding the Damascus government's siege of al-Shahba canton, Ilham Ahmed said: "We saw that the Syrian government works to impose a siege on its people in the refugee camps and paves the way for the Turkish occupation to bombard Tel Rifaat and target unarmed civilians."

As for the second axis, Gabriel Mostafa, the Member of the Human Rights Organization in Afrin - Syria read a report supported by documents describing the Turkish crimes in Afrin region during the years of its occupation.

The symposium also included the attendance of four children who had been disfigured as a result of the Turkish war mechanism targeting them in Afrin earlier, two of them had their faces burnt, and the other two had a limb amputated, as living evidence of crimes against childhood in the occupied regions by Turkey.

After reading the two axes of the symposium, the discussion was opened for the attendees to enrich the seminar and discuss ways to liberate the occupied territories.

International complicity towards Turkish violations

Among the participants in the discussion was the Head of the Syrian Renaissance and Change Party, Mostafa Kalaji, who said: "The Turkish flag in Afrin is the same as the one in al-Bab and Jarablus regions. The Turkish officers are the ones who run the area in Afrin and other areas. The Turkish government operates under the orders of world regimes, and it would not have dared to occupy any region in Syria if it had not received the green light. Its project is approved in Astana, and this indicates international complicity in the issue of the occupation of Afrin."

Turkey is the source of terrorism and crimes

For his part, the Member of the Peace and Regional Cooperation Council, Ahmed Derzi, described during his intervention: "The Turkish democracy is pseudo, and it is which developed the Muslim Brotherhood Movement to serve its interests."

The rest of the seminar participants' discussions centered around the crimes committed by the Turkish occupation in Afrin, which it turned to ashes, and targeted its religious, archaeological and cultural sites, as well as changing its demographics, in addition to the prevalence of human organ trade in the occupied areas through Turkish intelligence. During the discussions, international silence towards these crimes, which are considered a disgrace to all of humanity was indicated to.

Opinions of some participants

Our agency held interviews with some of the participants on the sidelines of the symposium, where the meeting took place with the Member of the Presidential Council in the Syrian Democratic Council, Fahima Hamo, and she said: "This seminar is a complementation of the series of seminars held in north-east Syria, coinciding with the memory of the Turkish occupation's attacks on Afrin city and the displacement of its residents, and it aims to shed light on the crimes of the occupation in Afrin, which are still continuing to this day."

Fahima pointed out that they wanted to identify foreign agendas and international interventions in Syria, stressing the need for resistance as it is the only way to defeat the Turkish occupation in Syria.

The importance of dialogue in solving the Syrian crisis

Our correspondents also interviewed with the Member of the Popular Will Party, Hashem Mesto, who mentioned at the beginning of his speech the importance of the understanding card in the Syrian Democratic Council. He said: "The Syrian solution expresses Resolution 2254 which is a constitution and a transitional ruling movement for elections. As for the parts of the Syrian conflict, they are divided vertically, as some of them consider that the Turkish presence in Syria is an occupation, and it is , some consider that Iran and Russia are occupations, and as a party, we see that the American is the real occupier of Syria."

At the end of his speech, Mesto stressed the necessity of the Syrian-Syrian agreement that produces a new Syria, and it is the one that decides the enemy and friend.

For his part, the Member of the Syrian Democratic Party, Khaled Abu Jihad, said: "We hope that the dialogue that took place in this symposium will be a meeting with all the Syrian people during this symposium held by the Syrian Democratic Party to fight the global aggression against Syria, especially the Turkish aggression."

Abu Jihad continued: "The Justice and Development Party represented by Erdogan and advocating Islam has occupied Syrian lands, and the Muslim Brotherhood Movement sponsored by the Turkish government is the wing of global imperialism that achieves its goals in the region."

In the conclusion of his speech, Khaled stressed the components' necessity of joining hands to defeat the occupation in the region, and deter the threat of terrorism which works to divide the Syrian territories.

After expressing the participants' opinions and discussing ways of strategies for the resistance to liberate the occupied territories, the seminar was concluded.

D.H

ANHA

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