HR activist: OPCW prevents documents related to Turkey's crimes against Kurds

 The Turkish occupation army, during a period of 7 months of intense attacks on the legitimate defense zones, launched 2,837 raids with banned bombs and chemical weapons in violation of international laws.

 Lawyer and human rights activist, Hajar Al-Ka'ai, who resides in the city of Kirkuk, told our agency about the international conventions that oppose the use of these weapons, and the reasons that impede opening this file and placing it on international agendas as a prelude to holding Turkey accountable before international courts.

 Al-Ala'ai mentioned that there are several agreements prohibiting the use of chemical weapons, including the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1993, which was signed by 92 countries, including Turkey, Iraq and Syria.

 This agreement prohibits the development, production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons, and the signatory countries undertake not to possess, store, keep, or transfer them directly or indirectly inside or outside the country, provided that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) of the United Nations monitors the countries that possess them.

 The lawyer said that there is another protocol related to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts, which is the Geneva Convention of 1949, and it was mentioned in this agreement that "it is forbidden to use chemical weapons, which are among the internationally prohibited weapons."

He added that there is another agreement that prohibits the use of chemical weapons, which is the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons of 1972.

 Despite the evidence of the Turkish occupation state's use of chemical weapons banned under several international protocols and agreements, international powers turn a blind eye to Turkey's use of these weapons, and impede the opening of this file.

 Three reasons hinder holding Turkey accountable for its crimes

 Hajar Al-Ka'ai explained that the first reason is related to the countries that control the United Nations and the official authorities that deal according to their interests and at the same time remain silent about some crimes at the time of their commission.

 And he indicated that in the eighties of the last century, Saddam Hussein's regime used chemical weapons several times, but the international powers were silent at that time about this major crime, which was considered a crime against humanity and a war crime according to international criminal law.

Al-Ka'aiki stressed that the weapons used by the Turkish state are prohibited by all international standards, "We have proof of the use of chemical weapons, Turkey has also used phosphorous in northern and eastern Syria, these chemical weapons are internationally prohibited, when we presented these questions they did not have answers, because they have interests and preserve their interests."  at the expense of Kurdish nationalism.

 Some Iraqi circles have moved in the recent period to investigate the use of chemical weapons by the Turkish occupation state, especially the Iraqi parliament, which is in the process of forming a specialized committee to investigate and investigate Turkey's chemical file.

 The Kurdish authority in Erbil prevented the committee from reaching the place where the crime was committed.

 Regarding his vision and evaluation of these steps, Hajar Al-Ka'aiki pointed out that many Iraqi authorities are trying to investigate this issue, not only chemical weapons, but also the Turkish state's occupation of southern Kurdistan or northern Iraq.

 He added, "And let's not forget, in the past months, an international committee affiliated with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons entered Turkey to investigate chemical weapons. This committee arrived in Iraq and then headed to Erbil, but unfortunately the Kurdish authority in Erbil prevented the committee from reaching the place where the crime was committed."

 Al-Kakai revealed that there is a danger to a large area in Dohuk regarding the use of these weapons by the Turkish occupation state.

 Lawyer and human rights activist, Hajar Al-Ka'aiki, noted that "committees from the Iraqi parliament will try, and we have some contact as activists in this field with a group of human rights activists in Baghdad and even some officials within these parties who own a parliamentary bloc in the Iraqi parliament are trying to advance."  In this matter, but the Kurdistan Regional Government is not cooperating with them.

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