KCK Executive Council Co-Presidency issued a written statement about the ceasefire agreement and the Turkish state occupation in North East Syria.

The KCK said: The ceasefire should not result in legitimizing the occupation but in the withdrawal of the occupation forces. In this respect, it is not possible for the SDF reistance and the democratic public to accept any option other than the withdrawal of the invaders.

The resistance with great moral support and legitimacy has frustrated US President Trump and fascist and anti-Kurdish Erdogan conspiracy against the peoples of North-East Syria. The resistance, the pressure of the peoples and the democratic public, has put US President Trump in a difficult situation in which no political leader has ever fallen into history, allowing the invasion of the genocidal fascist Erdogan. 

The Trump administration has tried to stop the war brokering a ceasefire to get out of this situation. Giventhe resistance of the SDF and the support it received, Trump would have experienced as much exposure and isolation as Erdoğan. Both the US and Turkey needed a ceasefire, to survive the difficulties they experienced because of the resistance and its support by the peoples of the world and the democratic public.

With the approval of Trump, it is understood that the North-East Syrian administration has accepted this ceasefire in order to demonstrate the injustice of the invasion of fascist Erdoğan. Since there was an invasion attack and serious crimes against humanity, this ceasefire should not result in legitimizing the occupation, but rather in the withdrawal of the occupation forces.

The [SDF] fighters and the peoples of the world and the democratic public supporting this resistance aimed at ending these invasion attacks and withdrawing the invaders altogether. In this respect, it is not possible to accept an option other than the withdrawal of the invaders.

After the talks between the US and Turkish state delegations, the incomprehensible demand for the withdrawal of SDF forces would in fact mean the legitimation of the occupation. In this respect, the agreement brokered by the US delegation, except for the ceasefire, has neither political nor moral legitimacy.

The peoples of North-East Syria, world peoples and the democratic public should not loosen their resistance positions and continue their struggle until the invaders leave North-East Syria altogether. The ceasefire it would be meaningful if it was taken as a process that would lead to the withdrawal of the invaders and would be lead to taking steps in this direction.

The war crimes committed by the Turkish state during the occupation operation cannot be ignored. Turkish warplanes used the banned weapons they used in the Media Defense Zones in the invasion of North-East Syria. In this respect, the peoples of the world and human rights institutions should bring to account the dirty war chief Erdoğan and the other responsible people for the murder of civilians and the use of banned weapons.