Intellectuals Union of Al-Jazira region condemns Turkish attacks on legitimate defense zones

The Union of Intellectuals of Al-Jazira region issued a statement denouncing the attacks of the Turkish occupation state on the legitimate defense zones, and the text of the statement stated the following:

"The Turkish fascist state, since its establishment, has consistently fought the Kurdish people and their Liberation Movement in all forms of oppression, genocide, denial policies and the erasure of identity in various governments, and despite our people's constant pursuit of brotherhood, peace and co-existence, the fascist mentality of the Turkish state has not changed, and it has entered a more barbaric and brutal phase in the government of the Alliance between Justice and Development and the Nationalist Movement Party led by the dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan who is seeking to restore history by planning to commit more massacres against our people, inspired by what the Ottoman Empire had previously practiced with the brotherly Armenian people in 1915.

The statement added: "His forces invading Afrin, Serêkaniyê, and Girê Spî, his repeated campaigns on Southern Kurdistan, and his destruction of safe cities in Bakur Kurdistan, in addition to the burning of trees and stones throughout Kurdistan are nothing but purposeful plans to exterminate our people."

The statement stated: "In preparation for these goals, Erdogan seeks to eliminate the Kurdistan Liberation Movement, the spearhead in the struggle against Turkish fascism and its terrorist plans, and what campaign it launched against the legitimate defense areas in the media under the name of Lightning Claw, which was preceded by hundreds of campaigns, is nothing but a completion of its fascist and expansionist project according to the new Ottoman mentality in collusion with some Kurdish forces that seek their gains and interests with Turkish fascism at the expense of the Kurdish blood."

The statement continued: "For days, the Turkish army has been waging an open war against the Kurdistan Liberation Movement, using all types of weapons and with huge ground forces, whose number reached more than 5,000 soldiers targeting trees, stones and safe villages amid the silence and neglect of the Regional and Baghdad governments that are unable to protect their citizens and their sovereignty from the barbarism of the fascist Turkish state."

The statement affirmed: "We are aware of the fact that Turkish fascism, under the pretext of fighting the PKK, seeks to eradicate all the gains of the Kurdish people, whether in Başûr or Western Kurdistan, and eliminate any hope of the Kurdish people for liberation by eliminating their Liberation Movement and its revolutionary vanguard represented by the PKK, which is falsely included in the list of terrorism, American and European, to satisfy Turkish fascism."

In its conclusion, the statement appealed: "All democratic forces, human rights organizations and our struggling people everywhere must work to expose Turkish fascism and its policies, and to put pressure on global decision-making centers to hold Turkish fascism accountable for its barbarity against our people, remove the Kurdistan Liberation Movement from the list of terrorism and release the leader of the Kurdish people, prisoner of freedom leader Abdullah Ocalan and Kurdish strugglers from the prisons of Turkish fascism, fairness for the Kurdish people and their just cause, who suffered from the Turkish fascist policies and the usurping regimes in Kurdistan."

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ANHA