“Turkey uses chemical weapons to exterminate Kurds, international community has a hand in that.”

The Turkish occupation state is waging a war of extermination against the Kurdish people by all possible means and opportunities, using chemical weapons, and with the escalation of its attacks, scenes of Turkish massacres and crimes against the Kurds are repeated amid silence and international disavowal towards these crimes.

7 October, 2021 02:41

Kobani - Maysa Akkari

The Turkish occupying state continues war of annihilation against the Kurdish people in the four parts of Kurdistan and wherever it has the opportunity.

Since the Turkish occupation state has not been able to undermine the will and struggle of the Kurdish people for a long time, it has intensified its attacks on the areas of Southern Kurdistan, using chemical weapons as a means of annihilation against that solid will and fierce resistance.

The Peoples' Defense Forces had announced in the monthly report of the battles, published on September 23, that the Turkish occupation state carried out 157 chemical attacks against the fighters during one month on the fighters of the Kurdistan Freedom Movement in the legitimate defense areas in the Kurdistan mountains.

This is not the first time; Throughout its history, the Turkish state has used chemical weapons against the Kurdish freedom movement and the Kurdish people dozens of times, thus breaking a new record in its brutality.

The occupying Turkish state used chemical weapons not only against the Guerilla, but also against the Kurdish people during its founding years; With the beginning of the armed struggle of the Kurdistan Freedom Movement, the Turkish state used chemical weapons as the main means of massacres and genocide.

recurring crimes

In this context, a member of the Central Committee of the Syrian Kurdish Left Party in the Euphrates region, Koli Hassan, says, "The Turkish state does not hesitate to exterminate the Kurdish people wherever it has the opportunity to do so, and in recent times it is using chemical weapons in its war against the Kurdish people, in particular. In the mountains of Kurdistan.

Noting that the history of the Turkish state is full of crimes, Hasan says, "Turkey used chemical weapons in Ras al-Ain and Afrin, and is escalating its attacks to exterminate the Kurds over and over again."

The Turkish occupation forces used white phosphorous on October 9, 2019, during the attacks of the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries on Serêkaniyê/Ras al-Ain and Girê Spî/Tal Abyad, and despite the controversy surrounding the use of white phosphorous in the Chemical Weapons Convention, these weapons are prohibited from being used. against civilians under the 1980 Conventional Weapons Convention.

Silence and international disavowal

Koli wondered about the reason for the silence of the international community towards Turkish crimes, saying: "Why is the international community silent about these Turkish crimes and violations? Why is it silent and disavows about the genocide of the Kurds?"

She added, "We saw when the Syrian regime used chemical weapons how the reactions of all the international community to it proceeded, but now that the issue has become the Kurdish people, everyone is silent about it."

The chemical weapons used by the governments of Israel, the United States of America and Damascus occupied world public opinion and caused great reactions by the international community, but despite the fact that the fascist Turkish state had repeatedly used chemical weapons in its attacks on the Kurdish people, the international community He himself showed no reaction.

At the conclusion of her speech, a member of the Central Committee of the Syrian Kurdish Left Party in the Euphrates region, Koli Hassan, noted that the silence of the international community indicates that they have a hand in the genocide of the Kurdish people, especially the genocide that Turkey is carrying out.

Despite the use of chemical weapons against the Kurdish people 157 times in one month, as usual, no punitive action was taken against the Turkish state. Despite the appeals of Kurdish institutions, especially the Kurdistan Society and the Popular Defense Forces, the international community did not take any action To raise and discuss this topic.

ANHA