Counsel: Turkey must be held accountable for violating international laws

Counsel and member of the Euphrates Union of Lawyers, Azad Abdi, noted that Turkey is in violation of international law before the eyes of the whole world and stressed the need to hold the Turkish occupying state and its officials accountable for violating international laws, particularly with regard to the use of chemical weapons.

8 January, 2022 07:13

KOBANI- MAYSSA AKARI

The use of chemical weapons is a crime in many international agreements and treaties. However, the occupying Turkish state continues to commit this crime in the eyes of the entire world on a daily basis. Although the use of this weapon against the Kurdish people and Guerrilla fighters has been documented hundreds of times, the Turkish state has never been prosecuted and no State, institution or international organization has demonstrated a position expressing the responsibility of the Turkish state for these crimes.

Chemical weapons have been used hundreds of times in addition to sophisticated weapons in the obliteration war that began since 23 April 2021 against the People’s Defence Forces, HPG, and HPG declared in its previous months that the Turkish State had used chemical weapons 367 times in its war against the Guerrilla.

In Southern Kurdistan, Kurdish organizations and personalities gathered and advertised evidence from places where chemical attacks had taken place, and sent them to 28 competent institutions and international organizations, including America and member States of the European Union.

Turkey's violations committed before the eyes of the world in accordance with international laws and principles

In this context, the lawyer and member of the Union of Lawyers of Euphrates region, Azad Abdi states that "Turkey's use of chemical weapons has been established, it has been published in numerous world newspapers and has proved this right in their reports, knowing that, according to many international agreements and treaties, such weapons are internationally prohibited. "

Counsel Azad Abdi explains that "after the World War, the use of chemical weapons was prohibited and 193 States in the world signed The Hague Convention. Consequently, they signed a treaty in the name of the Chemical Weapons Treaty in 1993, under which they must prohibit the use of such weapons by any State in the world and set up committees to verify this by submitting research reports by the Committee itself to hold users of chemical weapons accountable."

International law prohibits the use of chemical weapons since 1899 under The Hague Convention, which provides for the prohibition of the use of poisoned weapons. In general, article 23 of this Act provides that the use of such weapons shall not be used.

by 1993; The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons is one of the most important treaties in international law, signed by 193 States in 1997. Its full name is the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons, which clearly provides for the prohibition of the production, stockpiling, use and destruction of chemical weapons when reached.

"Turkey and its officials must be held accountable for violating international laws."

Azad Abdi adds, "Under those agreements, the fact-finding committee must be established by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in accordance with evidence that Turkey has used such weapons, investigated them and held to account Turkey after its conviction, in addition to the destruction of those weapons."

Abdi notes that "when a State uses chemical weapons, although the fact-finding commission has been denied access to that State to investigate the use of such weapons, then the Security Council must intervene in accordance with its Chapter VII, which is entitled to intervene in that State and to hold it accountable and its officials for violations of international law."

Counsel continues, "If we compare what is happening in Southern Kurdistan with those international laws and principles, especially since Turkey is one of the ratifying States of that Convention, it must be held accountable for its violation and violation of international law, and if Turkey is not now held accountable, it will be held accountable later; It is inevitable that Turkey's use of such weapons has been demonstrated in the eyes of the whole world. "

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ANHA