More than 300 organizations and public figures calling for an end to the Turkish attacks on NE Syria

More than 300 civil organizations and personalities from 29 countries around the world have signed a petition calling for an end to the Turkish attacks on north and east Syria.

21 December, 2022 07:57

QAMISHLO

The Center of Civil Diplomacy in North and East Syria, in cooperation with 17 civil society institutions, launched on December 2 a campaign to collect signatures to demand an end to the Turkish attacks on the region.

Today, the Center of Civil Diplomacy in North and East Syria revealed the results of its campaign through a statement, that reads:

We, as a civil society in North and East Syria, call on the United Nations to stop the Turkish attacks.

Although Turkey launched a military campaign against the civilian population in North and East Syria, the relevant international institutions remain silent.

From November 20th until today, the Turkish state has been committing war crimes, killing more than 19 civilians including women, children, health workers, and journalists and targeting by means of warplanes more than 45 vital infrastructure sites, especially power and petrol stations, oil and gas fields and grain silos. Hospitals, schools and mosques were also destroyed. Besides the daily attacks, Turkey still threats to launch a ground military invasion against the region.

To demand an end to this ongoing aggression, eighteen civil society organizations in North and East Syria started on the 2nd of December a campaign to collect signatures to call on international institutions, especially the United Nations to break their silence.

During our campaign, more than 300 organizations and civil society institutions, as well as public figures including politicians, writers, authors, intellectuals, artists, religious leaders and athletes from 29 different countries around the world signed the petition, calling on the Secretary-General of the United Nations to take action against the illegal attacks launched by the Turkish state against the people of North and East Syria.

Turkey is deliberately violating international humanitarian law. Killing civilians, as well as attacks on civilian infrastructure are war crimes. Silence means complicity. So far, the United Nations has remained silent, which can be understood as a permission for Turkey to attack the civilian population in North and East Syria.

Accordingly, we call on the United Nations to fulfill its humanitarian and human rights responsibilities to stop the Turkish state's attacks on North and East Syria and to protect the lives of civilians.

Stop the Turkish aggression on North and East Syria!

Civil Diplomacy Center- Tev-Dem Democratic Society Movement- Union of Civil Society Organizations-Raqqa- Union of Civil Society Organizations-Tabqa- Kongra Star- Zenobia Women’s Assembly- Organization Against Violence-SARA- Free Media Union- Union of Intellectuals West Kurdistan- University of Rojava- The Culture and Art Movement- The Municipalities and Environment Committee in al-Jezeera Region- Afrin Social Association- Idlib Green Council- Federations of War Wounded in NES- Green Braid Organization- The Kurdish Red Crescent- Unity of Beliefs and Religions Mesopotamia.

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ANHA