Erdogan continues violations and commits war crimes in Iraq and Syria
Turkey and its regime, headed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, continue to engage in hostile practices in Syria and Iraq in order to achieve its influence and ambitions in the region. This has met with great anger and protest against the continuous practices of the Turkish regime and its interference in the affairs of regional countries.
Destruction in Syria
This is what Syrian political analyst Yaarib Khairbek said: The Turkish regime is committing the most heinous humanitarian crimes against the Syrian people through its continuous interventions in the country’s affairs and its pursuit of its ambitions in Syria through military intervention and presence.
In a statement to Al-Arab Mubasher, the Syrian political analyst added: “However, violations by the Turkish army and pro-Syrian armed factions continue to be widespread in north-eastern Syria, where these terrorist groups continue to commit looting and abductions to achieve Erdogan’s subversive goals in the region.”
He continued: Pro-Ankara groups have carried out massive displacements of northern Syrian residents in order to buy homes at lower prices, an expansionist scheme Erdogan is pursuing in Syria.
Expansion in Iraq
Turkey’s violations were not only in Syria, but also expanded to Iraq. The Turkish government’s constant pursuit of a presence in Iraq and its constant incitement to threaten the security and stability of Iraq were confirmed by Dr. Abdulmutaleb Al-Naqib, a professor of Iraqi International Relations, who said that Turkey was committing numerous crimes in the country through aerial bombardments on villages in northern Iraq, which caused the displacement of the inhabitants of those areas and the displacement of their inhabitants.
The professor of international relations added to Al-Arab Mubasher: “Turkish military operations are continuing by air and land deep inside Iraqi territory and in the Kurdistan region under the pretext of pursuing elements of the anti-Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party, but all Turkey is doing is to be present in Iraq and to realize its continued ambitions inside Iraq to establish military bases and expand its activities in Iraq significantly.”
Erdoğan’s Terrorist Regrouping
Continuing the Turkish crimes, Turkish judicial documents revealed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s involvement in bringing the most dangerous Turkish terrorist group back to life after the release of their leader and members.
Erdogan gave life to the group Fusat once again, the spiritual father of ISIS, an offshoot of al-Qaeda and the mastermind of Turkey’s bloodiest terror operations.
The leader of a jihadist group known as Fusat – listed as a terrorist entity in Turkey for bombing a Bible publishing house and killing an innocent boy – has resumed activities after the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan released him from prison.
According to the Swedish Nordic Monitor website, Shahimerdan Sary, a 61-year-old radical cleric who has served two sentences on terrorism charges, was rebuilding his jihadist network in Turkey’s border provinces near Syria.
On the other hand, Turkey has been setting up military bases in northern Iraq for years and refuses to withdraw from them on the pretext of “Turkey’s security”, despite Iraq’s repeated demands for their evacuation, while it wants to control Mosul and Kirkuk, similar to its occupation of the northern part of the island of Cyprus.
The Arab League recently held a meeting at the level of Arab foreign ministers to discuss Arab issues and relations with neighboring countries, in addition to discussing the Syrian and Libyan crises and the violation of Iraqi sovereignty by Turkey. Turkish violations of Syria’s and Iraq’s water rights were condemned through the construction of dams on the two countries’ main water sources.
Severe Sanctions on Turkey
Writer Khaled Rustom also monitored Turkey’s violations in Iraq and Syria, confirming in one of his articles that the results of the military operations in northern Iraq will be dire for Turkey as a result of its indiscriminate policies, which implicated it in open wars on various fronts in the Syrian, Iraqi and Libyan territories, which led to the deaths of dozens of Turkish soldiers due to these interventions in the affairs of Arab countries, and even the occupation of parts of their territories in flagrant violation of the rules of international law.
The writer continued: “Turkey’s intervention in northern Syria is extremely costly in terms of its soldiers’ losses following previous confrontations with the Syrian army and Russian forces, but Turkey insists on implementing its plans to create conditions for a permanent military intervention in Iraq, emulating what it has done in northern Syria, despite repeated Iraqi protests against Ankara’s continued violations of its territorial sovereignty.”
He explained: Turkish foreign policy is increasingly clashing with the positions of the Arab countries that reject the unjust aggressive operations in the areas under Turkish domination and terrorist organizations, as well as with the priorities of the European Union regarding the common foreign and security policy. For example, the European Commission accuses Turkey in this context of “illegal provocative actions” in Syria, Iraq and Libya, in order to “tear up” the Arab region. The Turkish expansion and deployment in northern Iraq and Syria raises geopolitical concerns, as Turkey’s suspicious moves constitute a security threat to the countries of the region, to which the return of stability is an important step on the road to securing the pillars of Arab national security.
Unfair rulings against Kurds
Continuing violations in northern Syria and against the Kurds, a Turkish court sentenced Kurds, including former mayors, to prison terms ranging from 8 years to more than 17 years.
According to the website of the Turkish opposition newspaper Afransal, among those sentenced were Ramzia Yashar, former head of the municipality of Yuksek Ova in the southeastern state of Hakkari. The sequestration and subsequent arrest came after the Turkish authorities accused the Kurdish leaders of belonging to the Union of Kurdistan Communities, an umbrella grouping of political and armed groups within the Kurdish movement, including the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which is classified by Ankara as a terrorist organization.
