France: 100 MPs denounce Erdogan’s ‘war policy’ against the Kurds

One hundred French MPs denounced Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s “war policy” against the Kurds of northern Syria, in an article published yesterday, Saturday.

“As Vladimir Putin’s Russia multiplies war crimes in Ukraine, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the shadow of global emotion, plans to launch another bloody attack against the Kurds of northern Syria,” the signatories point out in the article published on its website weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche.

The Turkish president “is taking advantage of his role in NATO in the context of the conflict in Ukraine to receive a blank check from the Atlantic Alliance in order to intensify his attacks in northern Syria”, these MPs and communist senators estimate, of France Insubordinate ( LFI/radical left), socialists, environmentalists but also some from the Republicans (LR/right) or from the party of President Emmanuel Macron.

“Western countries should no longer look elsewhere”, say the elected officials who call on the member states of the European Union “to guarantee the protection of Kurdish fighters and their associations located on European soil”.

They also call on France to appeal to the UN Security Council to “declare a no-fly zone in northern Syria and place the Syrian Kurds under international protection.” They want the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (Aanes) “to be able to have international recognition”.

Erdogan has repeatedly threatened to launch a military offensive against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria to create a “safe zone” following an operation he carried out in 2019.

Source: AMPE