The French Communist Party (PCF) released a statement calling for action against an imminent genocidal campaign against North-East Syria.

Remarking that the European Union must make its voice heard in order to oppose any attempt at new Turkish invasions, PCF calls for mobilisation to put an end to the law of arms in NE Syria and for the respect of the right of the Kurds to freely choose and build their destiny.

“While Europe has its eyes on Ukraine, R.T. Erdogan intends to seize this opportunity to commit new crimes in the media silence,” said the PCF, adding, “Erdogan is again taking advantage of the international crisis and the criminal Russian invasion of Ukraine.”

The statement released on PCF's website includes the following:

“The NATO summit that has just been held in Madrid has aroused immense indignation after the undignified concessions granted to the Turkish regime during the sordid blackmail that Ankara is accustomed to. Everyone remembers the outbidding on migrants and the blocking of negotiations on the transport of Ukrainian wheat across the Black Sea.

This time, in order to obtain the lifting of the Turkish veto on the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO, R.T. Erdogan obtained the commitment of Stockholm and Helsinki to extradite democrats, especially Kurds, qualified as "terrorists". The tyrant of Ankara has made a habit of labelling all those who reject his despotic violence as "terrorists" and they remain European leaders to maintain this fiction.

R.T. Erdogan was quick to provide lists of names reflecting the intense surveillance activity of the Turkish secret services in Europe, which do not hesitate to shoot Kurdish militants on our continent, as was the case in 2013 in Paris.

This shows NATO's contempt for the rights of peoples and more particularly for the Kurds who have been our allies in the fight against the Islamic State. The arrogance of the Turkish leaders has also allowed them to obtain from Sweden and Finland the cessation of support to the PYD and the fighting units (YPG) that all praised not long ago for their courage and sacrifice against the Syrian jihadist organisations supported by the Turkish regime.

But alongside these official renunciations, there are more unofficial surrenders. Following Ankara's invasion of northern Syria, Finland and Sweden imposed an embargo on arms sales. This has been lifted. Moreover, R.T. Erdogan is furious about the American refusal to deliver fighter jets (F16) to modernise his ageing fleet. A meeting took place with J. Biden in which this issue was raised.

There is no doubt that R.T. Erdogan will undoubtedly use this weaponry to increase his destabilising regional influence in the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus, Greece, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Nagorno-Karabakh.

On the other hand, for several weeks now, R.T. Erdogan has been eager to invade the Kurdish territories of northern Syria in order to put an end to the experiment of democratic autonomy and to annex new territories. After Moscow's approval, R.T. Erdogan came to negotiate NATO's consent for a new armed intervention allowing Ankara and its jihadist supporters to take their revenge on the Kurds. While Europe has its eyes on Ukraine, R.T. Erdogan intends to seize this opportunity to commit new crimes in the media silence.

Erdogan is again taking advantage of the international crisis and the criminal Russian invasion of Ukraine. However, NATO leaders, only too happy to see Turkey consolidate its presence in the military command, which it has never left, are prepared to make any kind of renege.

This new NATO ignominy is a short-sighted calculation and will have profound repercussions that will cause suffering to the peoples. The north of Syria will be destabilised, favouring the return of Daesh (ISIS), millions of people will go into exile while a Turkish-Jihadist terror regime will impose itself in these territories. The Turkish government will be able to take advantage of this by recycling the jihadist fighters currently held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in new provocative military operations as it did in Libya or in Nagorno-Karabakh, where it intends to finish its dirty war work.

E. Macron's France remains dramatically silent like the other European capitals. The European Union must make its voice heard in order to oppose any attempt at new Turkish invasions.

The French Communist Party (PCF) condemns these capitulations and expresses its solidarity with the democratic forces in Turkey and Northern Syria. It calls for mobilisation to put an end to the law of arms in the region and for the respect of the right of the Kurds to freely choose and build their destiny.

For this, France must emancipate itself from the bargaining of NATO, which extends the logic of war everywhere and condemn the meetings of oligarchic clubs that seal the existence of a people admirable for its courage on the altar of abject interests.”