​​​​​​​Sheikho: Turkey threatens Arab security, seeks to revive Miller Pact

 The writer and political analyst, Ahmed Sheikho, said that Turkey is using water as a weapon against northern and eastern Syria, and it launches attacks on the mountains of Kurdistan to achieve its primary goal of occupying the areas that it sees as part of what it calls its Millî Pact, pointing out that it threatens Arab security also through its interference in Arab countries.  And this is what requires from the Arabs a single and integrated stance towards it.

 Turkey has been waging a relentless war against the Kurdish people everywhere it is, it has launched attacks on northern and eastern Syria and cut off the waters of the Euphrates River from the peoples of the region for more than three months. Moreover, it has launched attacks on the mountains of Başûr Kurdistan and has explicitly declared its intention to occupy the region.  On the Kurds in Bakur Kurdistan and Turkey.  In this context, ANHA agency interviewed the writer and political analyst Ahmed Sheikho, and here is the text of the dialogue:

 * For more than three months, Turkey has cut off the Euphrates water from Syria. What does this mean for an entire country?

Turkey violates international water agreements, including the 1987 agreement that set Syria's share of the Euphrates at 500 cubic meters per second, and in recent months Turkey has reduced this percentage to less than 150 cubic meters per second, thus using water as a weapon against population exceeds 5 million Syrians, is against the Autonomous Administration, to strike stability in the region.  It is correct to say that Turkey is practicing extermination against the Kurdish and Arab people and the peoples of northern and eastern Syria.

 * The United Nations issued a resolution demanding that hospitals, schools and water not be targeted in conflict areas in the world, including Syria. What is required of the UN regarding Turkey's cutting off the Euphrates water?

 Without any doubt, the international community must put pressure on Turkey to hold it accountable for this comprehensive aggressive operation against the peoples of Syria, and it is also the responsibility of Russia, America and the international coalition in the regions of northern and eastern Syria to work to deliver not allow Turkey to practice genocide against the peoples of the region. Even on the Arab League and Arab countries to help the peoples of northern and eastern Syria work to remove the Turkish occupation from water stations such as Alouk and end the Turkish occupation of Syrian lands and support mercenaries, terrorism and its policies of the demographic change.

* So far, the government in Damascus has ignored Turkey's water cutoff. What is required of it as it is a member of the UN?

 So far, the Syrian government has not made sufficient efforts to put pressure on Turkey and to take the issue to international forums, as it is a humanitarian, moral, and sovereign Syrian issue, and the Damascus government sometimes suffices to issue some statements that are of no use.  The Syrian government must make a greater effort to preserve the Syrian water sovereignty in cooperation with the Autonomous Administration in securing solutions to this crisis and not consider this issue in terms of political bids and consider it as a means of putting pressure on the Autonomous Administration and weakening the community's will there, as the Turkish state does.

 * Turkey cuts off the waters of the Euphrates and Tigris on the one hand and deprives Syria and Iraq of them, and on the other hand participates in building the Renaissance Dam on the Nile, how does Turkey use water to fight the peoples of the region, and what are its goals in that?

 It is true that there are information and news about the participation of several countries in the Renaissance Dam, including Turkey, and this reflects the policy of Turkey in trying to besiege the Arab region by interfering in Iraq, Syria, Qatar, Somalia and Yemen to Libya and Sudan in the past until Tunisia and supporting some movements in Algeria and Mauritania. All this to prepare  the atmosphere to impose its conditions on the pivotal Arab countries and use these occupations, rules and contributions to water projects that threaten Arab water security as pressure cards when negotiating with Arab countries and the major world.

* In addition to the deprivation of the population of northern and eastern Syria, Turkey launches continuous attacks on the mountains of Kurdistan. What is the danger of these attacks?

 The Turkish attacks on the legitimate defense zones ( Medya) in the regions of Matina, Zab, Avashin, and Haftinin have objectives in several stages, as follows: First;  Liquidating the Kurdistan Freedom Movement, ending the presence of the Peoples' Defense Forces ( HPG), besieging the Autonomous Administration and the Syrian Democratic Forces ( SDF) in northern and eastern Syria and separating them from the Kurdistan region, and secondly;  occupying strategic areas in the mountains of the Kurdistan region and increasing its influence over the region further, and the occupation of Hewler and Sulaymaniyah, and thirdly;  Fourth, progress to take Mosul and Kirkuk.  In this way, you will have completed the occupation of what it calls the Millî Pact  in Iraq, and there is no doubt that these attacks will not stop at this point if they succeed. The attacks are within the framework of a series of interventions and occupations targeting the peoples of the region, especially the Kurdish and Arab people, as Turkey has a project.  The new Ottoman Empire, which sees the whole region, including the Arab countries, is a legacy of the Ottomans that it must reclaim, and that the conditions in the last ten years are appropriate as a result of the power vacuum that afflicted some Arab countries. Attacks on the Medya are at the same time on all peoples of the region.

 * What is the required role of the Arab League regarding Turkish interventions?

The Arab League represents the will of all the components of the Arab countries, and it had statements and positions rejecting regional interventions in the Arab countries, especially Turkish and Iranian intervention, and there are decisions and statements that reject Turkish interventions in particular in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Qatar and other places, and during Turkey's occupation of Ras  Al Ain and Tal Abyad received the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, prior to the convening of the League, a delegation from the Syrian Democratic Council, and as a result, several decisions were issued, according to what suits each country, in rejecting the Turkish occupation and taking the appropriate action.  Iraq and Syria, especially the current attacks on the regions of Matina, Zab and Avashin, pose a great threat to peace, stability and security in the Arab countries and the entire region.

 Popular reactions were appreciated and salute, from the Saudi people who boycotted Turkish goods that wanted to distort the image of balanced Arab leaders such as the Saudi leadership.

 * The Turkish attacks on the mountains of Kurdistan coincided with the anniversary of their genocides against the Armenians, what does that mean?

Turkey always chooses the time to send messages through it, as Turkey's intervention and occupation of Syria in the Jarablus region was on August 24, the anniversary of the battle of Marj Dabiq between the Ottomans and the Mamluks, which resulted in the Ottomans occupying most of the Arab countries, and it also began its attacks to occupy the cities of Ras al-Ain.  Tal Abyad on October 9, which is the same date of the start of the international conspiracy that targeted the thinker and leader Abdullah Ocalan. There is no doubt that the recent Turkish attacks coincided with the 106th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. and the world will recognize this after 106 years."  But the important thing we must also know is that the Turkish mentality, thought, and chauvinism that exterminated the Armenians still exists in Turkey, and is now targeting the peoples of the region, including the Kurds, Arabs and others.

 * Turkey has explicitly declared its intention to establish bases in the areas it attacks, that is, it intends to occupy them as it did previously in Syria. What are the goals that Turkey does not explicitly declare?

 Turkey is present in its bases that are nearly fifty in the Kurdistan region and Iraq, and it has many Turkish intelligence points in violation of all international laws, and in a blatant encroachment on Iraqi sovereignty and disregard for the borders of a neighboring country. I t is important to know the basic goal is to eliminate the PKK, but the truth is a campaign of extermination against the Kurdish people and striking the basic Kurdish people's strength, the HPG, so that Turkey brought with it the mercenaries that it had previously taken to Syria, Iraq, Libya and Karabakh, and now it brings them to fight the people.  The Kurdish in the Medya as it brought them to Afrin, Ras al-Ain and Tal Abyad, Turkey's goal is the new Ottoman project, which targets all the peoples of the region.

 What does the silence of the Baghdad and Hewlêr governments mean about the Turkish attacks?

In most of the attacks that Turkey was previously launched, the Iraqi government calls on the existing or Turkish ambassador to hand over a protest. In turn, the Government of the Kurdistan Region was committed to silence and even when there were a martyrs of Kurds as a result of Turkish aircraft bombing. The Turkish operations were dissatisfied with their unacceptable statements, and these attitudes were not sufficient to deter Turkey. They rejected this occupation and claimed to exit Turkish basew from Iraqi territory and the Kurdistan region. [Asharq Al-Awsat] What is the relationship between the attempts of the central government in Baghdad, "Sanjar and Turkish attacks on the mountains of the region? The Şengal Agreement was held between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Government of Baghdad, without taking in the account the view of the  Yazidî community in the Şengal region, and implemented through the Kurdistan Democratic Party, to achieve its colonial objectives, to fulfill the edited by IIZID These troops and the HPG are intended and helped to protect the Şengal Yazidis, whose right is to reject the agreement which is ultimately the continuation of the genocide by Turkey and in cooperation with some forces.

The demands of the Yazidi people in the same administration via self-administration, so that we can say that the Federal Constitution can accommodate the demands of society. It is foregoing to the Government of Baghdad and the Kurdistan region accounting for those who left Şengal without protection in the hands of Daesh, and not holding agreements for the re-forces of the Şengal and most importantly, that the Yazidi community has organized itself and has sufficient forces to protect its presence from protection forces. Why does the international community allow Turkey to give up their attacks on the Kurdistan region of Iraq and the Kurds in general in Syria and Turkey too? The Kurdish issue has international dimensions and to divide Kurdistan into the Lausanne, Caes Pico, Cairo, Ankara and Mosul, from 1916 to 1923, including the greatness and given the role of their liquidation and giving them to the state the international system was seen through the Turkish lens and its interests lens with the Turkish state to the Kurdish issue. Today, the negative international position on the Kurdish issue is still and countries still prefer their interests to see the truth of the fascism by the Turkish state against the Kurdish people and may occupy Afrin and Al Ain and Tel Abyad and Turkish attacks on two years, but this international silence or the collusion often with the Turkish state making the current Turkish power of the national nationalism possesses a new Ottoman desire who wants to revive the Ottoman Empire, control and dominate on all peoples and countries of the region.

It is important for the Arab peoples to define the negative role of the current Turkish regime of the Justice and Development Party and the Turkish National Movement on the region, peoples and Arab countries as well as knowing the genocide against the Kurdish people and are not doubt that the struggle of the Kurdish people in achieving its freedom. but return to the tradition of historical democratic alliances according to integrated and unified democratic frameworks and a culture of the region can be of the right way to face the new Ottoman.

* Before Turkey launched its attacks on the Mountains of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, America renewed financial reward for information about 3 leaders in the PKK as well as by Biden calling with Erdogan. This means that this should not grant approval to Turkey The Trump administration has issued a resolution against three leaders of the Kurdistan freedom and unfortunate that Biden's administration has renewed the decision to narrow and silent the crimes of Turkish genocide against the Kurdish people and disguised as the Kurdistan Workers' Party This resolution is a continuation of genocide and international conspiracy against the Kurdish people and the peoples of the region in person thinker and leader Ocalan, embodies the outlook of the Turkish lens to struggle the Kurdish people and his prominent leading. Knowing that the struggle of leaders and struggle of the PKK is a struggle for people who want to achieve his freedom and get rid of occupation on their land and resolve the Kurdish issue according to democratic solutions in the existing border. But Turkey is evading the solution of the Kurdish issue and a nice wants to exterminate the Kurdish people and then complete genocide and occupation on the Arab people and other peoples. With the full of this decision, the will of the American people, who appeared in supporting struggle and resistance to the Kurdish people during the occupation of Turkey, is not. It is best to achieve peace, stability and security in the Payment area to resolve the Kurdish issue and to abandon such decisions, which are not only a guard and Turkish authorities.

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ANHA