Afrin jurists: Turkey used chemical weapons in its shelling due to international silence

Despite repeated appeals and criticisms of the international community in this regard, the latter continues to remain silent on Turkish crimes against all NE, Syria spectra.

Lawyer Lazkin Ahmed Kaur and member of the Afrin Bar Union said: "For more than six months, the Turkish State has been targeting legitimate defence areas in Metîna, Zap, Heftanîn as well as Zagros with internationally prohibited chemical weapons."

Ahmed Kaur recalled the laws and treaties prohibiting the use of chemical weapons through The Hague Convention, article 23 of which prohibits the use of chemical weapons in any form. The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Chemical Weapons (the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons), one of the most important international treaties prohibiting the use of chemical weapons, came into being in 1993. "

Everywhere Turkey uses chemical against the Kurds

Lawyer, Roshin Hado confirmed that the Turkish occupation state used the chemical weapons, when it could not make any progress on the battlefield, as it did in Arnda village in Shia district and Ras Al Ain, used the chemical weapons in legitimate defence zones and used them before in Afrin White phosphorus was used almost a year ago in Ras Al-Ain, which killed dozens of civilians, in which the child Mohammed was mutilated by chemical weapons and was transported to France to receive medical treatment. "

For his part, lawyer, Gabriel Mustafa spoke: "The use of chemical weapons by the Turkish occupation against the Kurdish people in general and the People's Defence Forces in particular in legitimate defence areas is contrary to the charters and laws prohibiting the use of chemical weapons against civilians and military personnel, but despite these laws and the Hague Conventions on the Prohibition of the Use of Chemical Weapons, as well as the 1993 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Production and Use of Chemical Weapons for Non-Peaceful Purposes, the Turkish continues to Use of Chemical Weapons against Civilians."

Mustafa continued: "The Turkish occupation in this modern era used chemical weapons against the Kurdish people in their 2018 aggression against Afrin canton as well as in 2019 in Ras Al-Ain when white phosphorus was used, and now in the Kurdistan Mountains, based on the international silence in its use of those freely destroyed weapons."

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ANHA