More than100 Syrian Human Rights, Civil Orgs. decry Turkish occupation aggression 

96 Syrian human rights and civil organizations and bodies issued a human rights appeal in which they condemned the Turkish occupation attacks on the regions of North and East Syria.

The text of the appeal of Syrian human rights and civil organizations:

The Turkish occupation forces continued their barbaric and widespread aggression against lands in North and East Syria, using various types of weapons through military aircraft, drones, missile and artillery bombardment, blatant violation of Syrian airspace and sovereignty, and a flagrant violation of all principles and rules governing international humanitarian law and international human rights law, as a result of aggressive military actions. The scale of devastation and destruction of various infrastructures, vital, health and service facilities, and private and public property, has increased throughout the region, in clear aggressive targeting intended to kill all forms of life in North and East Syria, since the date of 12/23/2023 until now, and the Turkish aggression resulted in the barbaric attack killed a number of civilians and injured dozens.

As a result of the aggressive attack, more than 2,600 villages and cities live in complete darkness, as Turkish occupation aircraft targeted power stations in the city of Qamishli and its countryside, and the attacks and aerial bombardment also targeted: Derik and Ad-Darbasiyah as well.

This barbaric aggression continued, with the Turkish occupation mercenaries bombing the village of al-Dandaniya, located in the northwestern countryside of the city of Manbij, with heavy weapons and mortar shells.

As a result of the catastrophic situation experienced by the people of the villages and neighborhoods of North and East Syria, with their various components, from the practices and attacks of the occupying forces, we in the Syrian Federation for Human Rights and the human rights bodies, organizations and centers that produced this human rights report, strongly condemn and denounce all the violations committed against Syrian citizens by the forces of the occupation that committed these violations, and we declare our full solidarity with the families of all Syrian victims, and we extend our warm and heartfelt condolences to all those Syrian citizens, civilians and non-civilians who died in the villages and cities of the North and East of Syria, and with our wishes for a speedy recovery to all the wounded, we condemn and denounce all practices of violence. And the killing and assassination practiced by the Turkish occupation forces. We also strongly condemn and denounce the forced disappearances, kidnappings and assassinations against Syrian citizens, regardless of who committed these violations, whether Turkish or Syrian, cooperating with them. We express our deep concern for the fate of the forcibly disappeared, and we turn to the international community to demand by moving and working seriously and quickly to put an end to this described aggression against the villages and cities of North and East Syria, as it represents a violation of Syrian sovereignty, and undermines the efforts of existing political solutions and efforts to combat terrorism in Syria.

We consider the brutal and indiscriminate bombing of the Turkish aggression to be an illegal act and contradictory to the principles and purposes of the United Nations and international law, and we condemn all practices of the Turkish occupation forces. We turn to the United Nations, to the permanent members of the Security Council, and to all international bodies and institutions concerned with defending human rights.

1) Exerting all serious and effective pressure on the Turkish government, in order to stop its aggression against the North and East of Syria.

2) The immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Turkish forces and their collaborators from all Syrian lands in the North and East of Syria, which they intervened and occupied.

3) Exposing the dangers of the Turkish occupation and its aggression and the violations resulting from Turkish military operations against Syrian civilians and exposing them to grave humanitarian risks.

4) Stopping the operations intended to target hospitals, mobile and fixed medical centers, rescue teams, and medical teams, and allowing them to evacuate the wounded and the bodies of the dead, and rescue those who remained alive from under the rubble.

5) Put pressure on the Turkish government, in order to stop the warplanes, the Turkish UAVs, and the artillery fire and shells of the Syrian militants cooperating with them, in their targeting of civilians, churches, places of worship, and private and public property, and to stop the looting and theft of shops and homes.

6) Forming an independent, impartial, fair and transparent judicial investigation committee with the participation of representatives of the Syrian Federation for Human Rights and organizations defending human rights and women’s rights in Syria, which will uncover all the violations that have been committed since the beginning of the Turkish aggression until now, and the officials from the occupying forces who caused the occurrence. Victims (dead and wounded), in order to refer them to local, regional and international judiciary and hold them accountable.

7) Calling on Syrian human rights and civil organizations to cooperate in order to scrutinize and document the various crimes against humanity committed by the Turkish occupying forces since the beginning of the Turkish aggression until now, in order to build a legal file that allows the follow-up and prosecution of all perpetrators of violations, whether they are Turkish or Syrian cooperating with them, as Some of these violations rise to the level of crimes against humanity and require referring the perpetrators’ file to international criminal courts and international justice.

8) Inviting international bodies and institutions concerned with meeting the life, economic and humanitarian needs of the afflicted cities and villages of East and North Syria, and providing them with all necessary supplies.

9) Popular and human rights work from all the indigenous components of the people of the cities and villages of North and East Syria, in order to confront and stop the increasing risks resulting from the racist practices of the occupation forces that adopted forced and violent displacement and ethnic cleansing, and to stand firmly in the face of all practices that depend on changing demographic structures in order to achieve for ethnic and racist goals and interests, its fragmentation strikes all the foundations of civil peace and co-existence.

T/ Satt.

ANHA