Syria: Turkish occupation forces’ current attacks on Syrian areas are part of the ethnic and geographical cleansing policy

DAMASCUS, May.30, (ST)- Syria has renewed its rejection of the military attacks being launched by the Turkish occupation forces since several days ago on some areas and villages, noting that what the Turkish regime is doing constitutes war crimes and crimes against humanity and are part of the ethnic and geographical cleansing policy.

 

An official source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said on Monday in a statement to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA): “The Syrian Arab Republic rejects the military hostilities being launched by the Turkish occupation forces since several days on areas and villages in the north-east of Syria, especially on the areas of Tal Tamr, Abu Rasin and others in the northwestern countryside of Hasakah, which led to many civilian casualties, massive damage to public and private properties and infrastructure, and the displacement of dozens of families from their homes and villages there.” 

 

The source added that what the Turkish regime is doing to establish the so-called “safe zone” on Syrian territory is a shameful act of aggression and part of the policy of ethnic and geographical cleansing practiced by the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the occupied Syrian territories .These are war crimes and crimes against humanity and are rejected by the UN Charter, the United Nations, International Law and International Humanitarian Law.

 

“Syria holds every party that operates illegally outside the framework of the Syrian state and its institutions and seeks to provide justifications for the Turkish regime in launching  its bloody campaigns against the Syrians, the responsibility for giving cover to the elusive regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan to justify his attacks, policies and colonial plans in Syria,” the source asserted. 

 

It affirmed that  Syria’s sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity will not be the subject of blackmail or bargaining by the extremist Turkish regime, in collusion with its ally in Washington and with some Western countries that seek cheap political gain at the expense of the Syrian people and the unity of their land, and in contradiction to the international consensus on the need to preserve and respect the sovereignty of Syria and the independence and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic.

 

The source concluded by saying that Syria stresses its right in international law to the use of all legitimate means guaranteed by this law and the principles of the Charter of the United Nations to confront any measures taken by the Erdogan regime and its agents of terrorist organizations and demands the exit of all illegal foreign forces from Syrian territory .It also demands a halt to the support of  terrorism wherever it is found ,calling for supporting the efforts of the Syrian state in disarming all illegal weapons and restoring security, stability and economic and social well-being throughout the country in a way that meets the aspirations of all Syrians.

 

Basma Qaddour