Jabhet Al-Akrad Command: International community must put an end to Turkish crimes

The General Leadership of the Jabhet Al-Akrad Forces indicated that Turkey's crimes in Syria amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, calling on the international community to fulfil its humanitarian and legal duty, re- pump water to Hasakah city and allow the Euphrates River to run.

Jabhet Al-Akrad Command: International community must put an end to Turkish crimes
2 May, 2021   05:41
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On Sunday, the General Leadership of the Jabhet Al-Akrad Forces issued a statement to public opinion, which it posted on the official website of the Manbij Military Council.

During its statement, the leadership referred to the crimes committed by the Turkish occupation in Syrian cities and regions, while warning of the danger of continued Turkish occupation and the use of terrorists in the occupied cities as hotbeds to the terrorism, which prevents the achievement of a political solution in Syria and deepens and hampers the crisis.

And called the international community to do its duty to prevent Turkish crimes and re-pumping the water.

The text reads as follows:

"It has been several years since Turkey and its gangs occupied the city of Afrin and Girê Spî/ Tal-Abyed, Serêkaniyê/ Ras Al-Ain, Jarablous, Azaz, Al Bab and Idlib, causing unthinkable devastation to those areas, and its people had severely suffered by Islamist terrorist ISIS, and its predecessors rival each other, to share influence in order to loot, impose royalties and ransoms.

All these criminal forms were collected by the Turkish occupation under the labels "The Euphrates Shield, the Olive Branch and the National Army." It was supported by its occupying troops armed with NATO weapons, attacking Syrian cities and areas and destroying them over the heads of their owners and safe people, who sacrificed their lives to adhere their land and homes, as well as forced displacement and destruction of civilian homes, vital installations and civilian infrastructure during their attacks on all cities and occupied areas and the systematic demographic by imposing Turkification policy on IDs. The Turkish language has been imposed in schools, with a view to changing the features of the towns, the names of the streets and schools by Turkish names, the circulation of the Turkish lira and its use for water warfare, which are the dirtiest kind of war by cutting off drinking water from the Aluk station from Hasakah's people for more than 20 times, and the reduction of the waters of the Euphrates river, which are contrary of international and regional laws, treaties and customs. "

The statement continued: "We, in our turn, in Jabhet Al-Akrad Forces, affirm that these crimes are war crimes and crimes against humanity; We caution against the danger that Turkey will continue to deal with all occupied Syrian cities and regions as a tool to be used to support Islamist terrorist groups who had relationship with terrorism.

We, The Jabhet Al-Akrad Forces, therefore call on the international community, the United Nation body, the Security Council and all human and human rights organizations, to fulfil their legal, moral and humanitarian duty. It has taken its part in the crimes of the Turkish occupier and its mercenaries, in the re-pumping of water to Hasakah's people, in allowing the run and passage our percentage of the Euphrates River inside the Syrian lands, in accordance with the agreement concluded between Damascus and Ankara in 1987, in ending the situation of occupation and in ensuring the safe return of civilians and the return of land and houses that have been occupied and looted

We pledge and assure our people in all cities and occupied areas that we continue to struggle and sacrifice until all of our occupied territories are liberated.

the Jabhet Al-Akrad Forces, concluded with the pledge to follow the path of martyrs and to preserve the principles for which they had been sacrificed. "We pledge our martyrs to follow steps and to preserve the principles for which they have been sacrificed in order to provide a state of security and stability, which will contribute to promoting the resolution of the conflict in Syria through dialogue, preserving the rights of all components of the Syrian people, regardless of race, religion, creed or belief, under the umbrella of United Nations resolution 2,254, and building a democratic pluralism and decentralized Syria."

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ANHA