Syrian UN ambassador: Turkey supports ISIS (Daesh). Ankara must end the illegal occupation of Syria. No one believes the narratives Turkey uses to justify its attacks on Syria anymore.
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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Syrian representative at the United Nations on Tuesday blasted Turkey for repeatedly violating its sovereignty and accused the country of sponsoring extremist organizations such as the Islamic State (ISIS), state media reported.

“Syria calls on UNSC [UN Security Council] to compel Turkish regime to end its illegal military presence on Syrian lands,” said Al-Hakam Dandi, the Syrian permanent representative to the UN.

Dandi added that “the pretexts marked by the Turkish regime to justify its attacks on Syrian territories are no longer tricking anyone, particularly in light of its persistence to back terrorist organizations and to sponsor ‘Daesh [ISIS]’ and ‘Jabhat al-Nusra [Hayat Tahrir al-Sham].’”

Turkey launched a new aerial campaign dubbed Operation Claw-Sword on November 20 targeting positions of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Syria as well as Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in the Kurdistan Region.

At least 30 soldiers of the Syrian regime have been killed in the ongoing Turkish operation, according to figures by the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Tuesday.

The SDF is a key US ally and held an instrumental role in defeating ISIS in Syria in 2019, reclaiming swathes of territory from the terror group as their backbone – the People’s Protection Units (YPG) - received worldwide recognition for their successful resistance to ISIS as the terror group pounded on the northern Syrian Kurdish city of Kobane in 2014.

Ankara has carried out three major military operations against the SDF in Syria since 2016, invading several Kurdish towns, such as Afrin, and Syrian armed groups, affiliated to Turkey, have been accused of committing human rights violations, killings and abductions as well as forcing the displacement of Kurds.

29/11/2022
Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention issues “Red Flag Alert” for Turkish attacks on North and East Syria
29/11/2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid the Turkish attacks on North and East Syria and northern Iraq, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (LIPG) issued a “Red Flag Notice” over the aggression.
In a statement, LIPG said that it issued the alert over Turkey’s ongoing ethnic cleansing rhetoric against the Syriacs (Arameans–Assyrians–Chaldeans), Yezidis, Kurds, and Armenians.
LIPG added that Turkey’s recent attacks on northern Iraq and Syria targeted a wide range of villages and towns, including Kobane, Tel Rifaat, and Shigur (Shengal / Sinjar), where many refugees and persecuted groups remain displaced.
Since the defeat of the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2019, Turkey has repeatedly targeted areas of North and East Syria and Iraq, killing civilians and spreading terror and panic among local communities, explained LIPG. These attacks, launched by the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, are part of a broader scheme to further displace the rightful inhabitants of areas Turkey wants to occupy through bombing, kidnapping, torture and, extrajudicial killing so that it can resettle groups it can politically control.
LIPG added that Turkey also supports the genocidal practices of Azerbaijan against the Armenians in both Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh and participates with Baku in falsifying history of the Armenians of the region.
It called on the international community to punish Turkey for its genocidal ideology and practice and take concrete measures to protect the Syriacs (Arameans–Assyrians–Chaldeans), Kurds, Yezidis, and Armenians and their identity.
The institute urged the international community to avoid the repetition of dark chapters of history and for the world to stand against the perpetrators and supports of genocide. Continued blind support for Turkey and Azerbaijan could amount to complicity with them in the genocide, LIPG concluded.