100 French MPs denounce Erdogan’s “policy of war”
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – A hundred French parliamentarians denounced on Saturday the “policy of war” that Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan follows against the Kurds in northern Syria.
The French MPs, who are mainly from the political left, urged the UN Security Council to impose a no-fly zone on northern Syria.
“While the rest of the world is focused on Ukraine, as Russia’s war crimes multiply there, Erdogan is planning to launch an umpteenth bloody offensive against the Kurds in northern Syria,” the French MPs said in a statement published by the JDD title.
“The Turkish president is taking advantage of Turkey’s pivotal status, as a NATO member on good terms with both Moscow and Kyiv, to obtain a blank check from the Atlantic Alliance in order to intensify his attacks in northern Syria,” the Communist senator Laurence Cohen said.
“Western countries must no longer look the other way,” said the elected representatives, parliamentary deputies and upper house senators mostly from leftist and ecologist parties.
They called on the West “to guarantee the protection of Kurdish activists and associations present on European soil.”
The MPs urged France to refer the matter to the UN Security Council “to declare a no-fly zone in northern Syria and place the Syrian Kurds under international protection.”
They also called for the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) to “be granted international recognition.”
The AANES was first formed in 2014 in the Kurdish-majority regions of Afrin, Kobani and Jazira in northern Syria following the withdrawal of the government forces. Later, it was expanded to Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa, Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) defeated ISIS militarily.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has recently announced plans to carry out another major military cross-border incursion into northern Syria. Erdogan specified his targets in the two northern Syrian cities of Manbij and Tel Rifaat.
On July 1, Erdogan said that Ankara’s new military operation in northern Syria could begin at any moment.
“I always say that we can start [the incursion] at any moment at night. We should not worry and rush, especially since we are working in the area,” Erdogan told reporters after returning from the NATO summit in Madrid.