European Union leaders will discuss relations with Turkey at their summit in Brussels on 10 and 11 December, including whether to sanction it for its actions in the Eastern Mediterranean.

According to the public statements made by the official bodies and representatives of the EU, the main issue on the agenda regarding Turkey will be its actions in the Eastern Mediterranean.

However dozens of Kurdish parties and institutions have signed a statement to say that they "find inadequate and insincere". They call "on the European Union summit held on the Human Rights Day, instituted by the United Nations, to raise the issue of the crimes committed by the Turkish state against the Kurdish people and to take appropriate action to sanction Turkey for these crimes."

The letter reads as follows:

"If the European Union does not act against the human rights violations and war crimes against Kurds, which are widely documented in reports by the United Nations Human Rights Commission on Syria, by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, it will reward Turkey for its anti-humanitarian policies against Kurds in Iraq, Syria and Turkey. Failure to act against these crimes will hurt the conscience of EU members and world humanity.

Turkey has carried out ethnic cleansing in Afrin since its occupation in 2018 and continues to do so there, as well as in Gire Sipi and Serekaniye, which it occupied in 2019 with jihadist gangs before the eyes of the whole world. These gangs have plundered cultural and historical monuments and artefacts there.

After the occupation, torture, rape, looting, kidnappings began and local people were persecuted.

Turkey, run by the AKP-MHP fascist ruling bloc, has become one of the world's largest prison for journalists and politicians, with elected Kurdish lawmakers and mayors arrested on Erdogan's instructions. This is in total disregard of the law.

Trustees were appointed to KURDISH municipalities that elected mayors from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), especially metropolitan mayors, elected mayors were imprisoned, and some were sentenced to decades in prison.

Turkey's attacks and anti-democratic practices against Kurds have been going on in Iraq for years. In recent years, 28 civilians have been killed and scores injured in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region in regular airstrikes by the Turkish military.

There are numerous examples that we can provide about the crimes the Turkish state has committed against Kurds, but as mentioned above, they have been reported by the UN and several human rights organisations.

This is why the leadership of the European Union, which has ignored the crimes committed by the Turkish state's against the Kurdish people for many years, should take a look at these reports and act in accordance with the founding objectives of the Union. We call for human rights, fundamental freedoms, and democracy.

We, the following Kurdish parties and institutions remind you that the European Union is facing a humanitarian test and demand that you, the leaders of the EU take appropriate action to protect the human rights of the Kurdish people against crimes committed by the Turkish state."

The letter is signed by the following Kurdish Parties and Organizations in Europe:

• PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan)
• GORRAN Movement
• KCDK-E (Kurdistan Society Congress-Europe)
• TJK-E (Kurdistan-Europe Women's Movement)
• Kurdistan Communist Party Basur
• Party of Hardship - South
• PADE (Ezidi Freedom and Democracy Party)
• Freedom Movement
• PYD (Democratic Union Party)
• P.D.K.S (Syrian Kurdish Democratic Party)
• The Kurdish Left Party in Syria.
• Kurdistanî-S TheKurdish - Sorya Unsin Movement
• PCDKS (Kurdish Democratic Left Party in Syria. )
• The Kurdish Democratic  Partyin  Syria(  EEl  PArti ) .
• Democratic Left Party in Syria
• Kurdish Reconciliation Party in Syria
• Kurdish Reform Party in Syria
• Kurdistan Green Party in Syria.
• Kurdistan Democratic Party in Syria.
• Kurdistan Communist Party in Syria.
• PIK (Kurdistan Islamic Party)
• KKP (Kurdistan Communist Party)
• Kawa Movement
• PJAK (Kurdistan Free Life Party)
• Kurdistan Revolutionary Union
• KODAR (Democratic Society and Freedom of East Kurdistan)
• KJAR (East Kurdistan Women's Society)
• Horam Platform
• Zagros Platform
• Yarsan Platform
• Kurdish yari
• Tevchand (Kurdish Culture and Art Movement))
• Kurdish Community Stuttgart e.V
• FEDA (Federation of Alevis of Kurdistan)
• NAV - YEK (Federation of Ezidi Associations)
• Kurdish Center Berlin
• CIK (Kurdistan Islamic Society)
• Kurdish Institute - Germany
• Kurdish Institute - Brussels
• MSD (Sinjar Overseas Assembly)
• YMK (Kurdistan Teachers' Union)
• YES (Syrian Ezidi Union)
• Kurdish Community Brandenburg – Berlin
• Umbrella organization of the Ezidi women's councils
• DKF (German-Kurdish Forum) e.V Dresden
• Mesopotamia People Congress
• Mesopotamia Freedom Party.
• Kurdistan human rights Association