An appeal to international and regional public opinion to stop the Turkish aggressive threats, which are condemned to invade Syrian territory
Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis, the Turkish state has targeted Syria and the Syrian territories with various types of brutal and continuous attacks, using all methods of violence and aggression. On the Syrian border, Turkey has established high points where the Turkish army is stationed, targeting anyone who approaches the border areas.
The same societal forces that fought the forces of terrorism and its organizations such as ISIS and Al-Nusra, and resisted and confronted the Turkish aggression and the militants who are fighting with it, are the ones being attacked by the Turkish forces and their collaborators, who committed many individual and collective violations against the people of the villages and cities of the north and northeast of Syria In addition to the huge volume of sabotage and destruction, hundreds of civilian and non-civilian victims, dead and wounded, and the displacement of thousands of indigenous people, in addition to many massacres characterized by ethnic cleansing and rising to the ranks of international criminal crimes, and in flagrant violations of all principles and rules that govern the law. International humanitarian and international human rights law.
Recently, the Turkish forces and their collaborators launched threats with a military operation and invasion of the areas of northern and eastern Syria with a depth of 30 km, that is, an invasion of an area in which about 3 million Syrian citizens live. In peace, security and disagreement, but the Turkish authorities and their collaborators from the Syrian opposition, they have goals in the north and east of Syria that do not stop at Manbij and Tal Rifaat, and they will be considered a target for them, whatever their forces can reach and the conditions and the regional and international political environment allow.
In addition, Turkey's threat to a possible military operation is a malicious attempt to blackmail the international community in an effort to impose a new reality in which it occupies the entire north of Syria, and that the establishment of the safe zone under the supervision of its forces will aim at ethnic cleansing against the indigenous population, and will cause a wave of migration and displacement of two million people inside Syria. And outside it, the state of instability will be entrenched, and the region will turn into a hotbed of long-term conflict, raising the risks of the growth of terrorism, the revival of takfiri organizations, and the revival of ISIS terrorist cells that will affect regional and international national security.
The recent Turkish threats aim to continue the genocidal attacks to occupy more Syrian lands and strike the democratic project in the region represented by self-administration. and their lands and the settlement of its mercenaries there, and changing them demographically, as it does in Afrin and Serêkaniyê “Ras al-Ain and Gire Spi” Tal Abyad, and imposing its authority on those areas and annexing them to Turkish territory later.
The Turkish threats are not for the return and resettlement of Syrian refugees, but an assault on Syrian territory and sovereignty. The approach taken by the Turkish state regarding refugees is not in line with international laws. In the beginning, the Turkish occupation state received large numbers of refugees and exploited them to benefit from them on the economic level.
Previously, the Turkish state opened its borders to Syrian citizens and entered millions of people, and now it has changed its policy and started targeting anyone who approaches the border, kidnapping them, torturing and killing them. Many citizens are subjected to arrest, and are tried in their courts with penalties that sometimes reach life imprisonment.
Today, Turkey is trying to exploit international conditions and the world's preoccupation with the Russian-Ukrainian war, and is trying to install new rules. It is also working to direct the Turkish voter about the economic crisis abroad through aggressive actions on Syrian territory.
The peoples of northern and eastern Syria and their resistance provided a great service to the international community by defeating terrorism, and today, the international community is required to protect these components that provided thousands of dead and wounded victims.
The Turkish forces and their collaborators from the armed Syrian opposition, on a daily basis, attack the lands of the north and northeast of Syria, using the latest types of air and ground weapons, and we refer to some of the daily and continuous practices of the militants of the Turkish occupation army and their collaborators:
1. Ethnic persecution
2. Committing genocide
3. Violations of women's rights.
4. Murder and mutilation of prisoners' corpses
5. Trials outside the law
6. The so-called spoils and confiscations
7. Burning books, documents and historical relics
8. Destruction and bombing of places of worship and heritage and archaeological sites
9. Kidnapping, enforced disappearance, torture and assassinations.
10. Kidnapping children and holding them hostage
11. Kidnapping and extortion: as an important source of financing for terrorism
12. Indiscriminate shelling and explosions.
Those examples of the committed acts are war crimes and international crimes against humanity, and according to our opinion, they take the place of the invasion and invasion of Syrian lands. Supporting these terrorist acts are subject to the authority of international law and to criminal accountability for their actions anywhere in the world.
As a result of the threats of a Turkish invasion operation, as we became in all Syria prisoners of the Turkish threats, which resulted in a catastrophic state of fears and warnings experienced by the Syrian people in general and the peoples living in the north and northeastern regions of Syria, as we condemn and denounce all practices of the Turkish occupation forces, we consider the Turkish threats to invade the lands In the north and north-east of Syria, an illegal act that contradicts the principles and purposes of the United Nations and international law, and we are in the Syrian National Network for Civil Peace and Community Safety, the Syrian Forum for Non-Governmental Organizations, the Syrian Feminist Alliance to implement Security Council Resolution No. 1325, and the Network for Defending Women in Syria. The Syrian Federation for Human Rights and the human rights bodies, organizations and centers producing this human rights report, we turn to the United Nations, to the permanent members of the Security Council, and to all international bodies and institutions concerned with the defense of human rights, to:
1. Exerting all serious and effective pressures on the Turkish government to prevent any new military operation, and to stop its daily aggression against the north and northeast of Syria.
2. The immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the Turkish forces and their collaborators, from all Syrian lands in the north and north-east of Syria, which they intervened in and occupied.
3. Exposing the dangers of the Turkish occupation and its aggression and the violations resulting from the Turkish military operations against the Syrian civilians, exposing them to massive displacements and grave humanitarian risks.
4. Rapid action in order to immediately reveal the fate of the missing, and to announce who is still alive or who has been killed and liquidated for political or non-political reasons.
5. Immediately stop all types of detention, kidnapping and enforced disappearance, whatever the justifications, material or immaterial, carried out by the Turkish security forces and the Syrian armed opposition’s collaborators, and release all abductees and detainees unconditionally
6. Stop the hands of the Turkish security services and the hands of all the Syrian armed forces cooperating with the occupation forces, from interfering in the lives of citizens in the city of Afrin and its villages, Ras al-Ain "Serre Kaniyeh" and Girê Spi "Tal Abyad", by stopping the pursuit, kidnapping and detention of Syrian citizens and hide them without any trace, or in order to negotiate them in return for a sum of money or in return for other kidnappers or detainees with the various conflicting parties
7. Exerting various pressures on the Turkish government and the Syrian militants cooperating with them, in order to stop their targeting of civilians, churches, places of worship, and private and public properties, cutting olive and fruit trees and looting agricultural crops, and stopping the looting and theft of shops and homes.
8. Forming an independent, impartial, impartial 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, to reveal all violations that have been committed since the beginning of the Turkish interventions in Syria until now, and the officials of the occupation forces who They caused victims (dead and wounded), in order to refer them to the local, regional and international courts and hold them accountable.
9. Inviting Syrian human rights and civil organizations to cooperate in order to audit and document the various crimes against humanity committed by the Turkish occupying forces since the start 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, given that Some of these violations amount to crimes against humanity and require referring the perpetrators' file to the International Criminal Courts and International Justice.
10. The return of displaced civilians and those fleeing from the residents of the cities and villages that were attacked, removing all obstacles to their return to their villages and homes, the necessity of securing those roads, ensuring that they and their property are not attacked, and removing mines. And thus empowering the people economically and socially, allowing them to manage their own affairs.
11. Calling upon the international bodies and institutions concerned with meeting the life, economic and humanitarian needs of the afflicted cities and villages of the north and northeast of Syria and the displaced people, and providing them with all the necessary necessities.
12. Popular and human rights work from all the original components of the people of the cities and villages of northern Syria, in order to confront and stop the increasing dangers as a result of the racist practices of the occupation forces, which adopted forced and violent displacement and ethnic cleansing, and to stand firmly in the face of all practices that depend on changing demographic structures to achieve goals Ethnic, racist and fragmented interests strike all foundations of civil peace and coexistence.
Damascus on 07/17/2022
Organizations and bodies concerned with defending human rights in Syria, the signatories:
The Syrian National Network for Civil Peace and Community Safety
The Syrian Platform for Non-Governmental Organizations (SPNGO)
The Women’s Defense Network in Syria (includes 57 Syrian women’s organizations and 60 independent Syrian women figures)
Syrian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (SCODP)
The Syrian Feminist Alliance to implement Security Council Resolution No. 1325 in Syria (led by 29 women, and includes 87 human rights organizations and women's rights defenders).
The Syrian Federation of Human Rights Organizations and Bodies (which includes 92 organizations, centers and bodies inside Syria)
Committees for the Defense of Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights in Syria (LDH).
Human Rights Organization in Syria - MAF
National Organization for Human Rights in Syria
The Kurdish Committee for Human Rights in Syria (Al-Rased).
The Arab Organization for Human Rights in Syria
Organization for the Defense of Prisoners of Conscience in Syria - Rawanga
The Kurdish Organization for Human Rights in Syria (DAD).
Kaskai Environmental Protection Organization
The Syrian Foundation for the Rights of Widows and Orphans
The National Assembly for Women's and Children's Rights.
The National Coordination for the Defense of the Missing Persons in Syria
Syrians for Democracy
Syrian Jurists Association for Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law
The Republic Center for Studies and Human Rights
Syrian Association for Freedom and Equity
Syrian Center for Human Rights Education
Ebla Center for Studies of Transitional Justice and Democracy in Syria
Syrian Center for Human Rights
Syrians hand in hand
Syrian Women Journalists Association
Zenobia Foundation for Development
Electronic Press Foundation in Syria
Apamea Justice Network
Democratic Association for Women's Rights in Syria
The Women's Gathering for Peace and Democracy in Syria
Association to Advance Community Participation in Syria
Green Earth Association for Environmental Rights
The Syrian Center for the Protection of Trade Union and Workers Rights
Syrian Foundation for Consultation and Training on Human Rights
Justice Center for Human Rights
The National Foundation to Support Fair Trials in Syria
Ebla Association for Free Syrian Journalists
Shahba Digital Media Center
Syrians Against Religious Discrimination
The National Committee to Support Human Rights Defenders in Syria
Al-Sham Association of Free Journalists
Syrian Institute for Development and Democracy
Syrian Women's Association for Studies and Training on Human Rights
Association for Women's Freedom in Syria
Palmyra Center for the Protection of Freedoms and Democracy in Syria
The Syrian Committee for Transitional Justice and Redress for the Victims
The Syrian Foundation for the Protection of the Right to Life
The National Association for Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Syria.
The Women's Foundation for the Care and Support of Civil Society in Syria
The National Center for Supporting Development and Syrian Civil Society Institutions
The Democratic Institute for Awareness of Women's Rights in Syria
Syrian Women's Foundation for Transitional Justice
Al-Sham Foundation to support reconstruction issues
People's Organization to Support Reconstruction in Syria
Solidarity Association for Supporting Peace and Tolerance in Syria
Syrian Forum for Truth and Equity
Syrian Center for Transitional Justice and Empowerment of Democracy
The Syrian Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture
Ahmed Bonjak Center for Supporting Freedoms and Human Rights
Syrian Center for Democracy and Development Rights
The National Center for Tolerance and Anti-Violence Studies in Syria
Syrian Center for Civil Society and Human Rights Studies
Syrian Kurdish Center for Documentation
Syrian Center for Democracy and Human Rights
Narina Association for Childhood and Youth
Syrian Center for Housing Rights
The Syrian Civilized Foundation for the Support of the Injured, the Affected and the Families of the Victims
The Syrian Center for Research and Studies on Migration and Asylum Issues (Scrsia)
Journalists Without Newspapers Organization
Syrian Committee for Environmental Rights
The Syrian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary
The Syrian Foundation for the Development of Community Participation
Syrian League for the Defense of Workers' Rights
Syrian Center for Transitional Justice (Masaa)
Syrian Center for Economic and Social Rights
Ugarit Center for Training and Human Rights
The Arab Committee for the Defense of Freedom of Opinion and Expression
Syrian Election Observation Center
Women Empowerment Organization in Syria
Syrian Foundation for Women Empowerment (SWEF)
The National Association for the Rehabilitation of Syrian Women.
The Syrian Foundation for Democratic and Political Development and Human Rights.
Syrian Center for Peace and Human Rights.
Syrian Organization for Political and Social Development.
Syrian Foundation for Democratic and Civil Development
Syrian Association for the Development of Civil Society.
Justice Center for Civil Society Development in Syria.
Syrian Organization for Youth Development and Community Empowerment
The Syrian Human Rights Monitoring Committee.
Youth Organization for Citizenship and Peace in Syria.
Palmyra Center to combat discrimination against minorities in Syria
The administrative body of the Syrian Federation for Human Rights
