More than 300 civil organizations and personalities from 29 countries around the world have signed a petition calling for an end to the Turkish attacks on North and East Syria.
The Center of Civil Diplomacy in North and East Syria, in cooperation with 17 civil society institutions, launched on December 2nd a campaign to collect signatures from civil society institutions in the Middle East and the world, to demand the end of Turkish aggression against North-East Syria.
Today, the Center of Civil Diplomacy in North and East Syria revealed the results of its campaign through a statement, which reads as follows:
“We, as a civil society in North and East Syria, call on the United Nations to stop the Turkish attacks. Although Turkey launched a military campaign against the civilian population in North and East Syria, the relevant international institutions remain silent.
From November 20th until today, the Turkish state has been committing war crimes, killing more than 19 civilians including women, children, health workers, and journalists and targeting by means of warplanes more than 45 vital infrastructure sites, especially power and petrol stations, oil and gas fields and grain silos. Hospitals, schools and mosques were also destroyed. Besides the daily attacks, Turkey still threatens to launch a ground military invasion against the region.
To demand an end to this ongoing aggression, eighteen civil society organizations in North and East Syria started on the 2nd of December a campaign to collect signatures to call on international institutions, especially the United Nations, to break their silence.
During our campaign, more than 300 organizations and civil society institutions, as well as public figures including politicians, writers, authors, intellectuals, artists, religious leaders and athletes from 29 different countries around the world signed the petition, calling on the Secretary-General of the United Nations to take action against the illegal attacks launched by the Turkish state against the people of North and East Syria.
Turkey is deliberately violating international humanitarian law. Killing civilians, as well as attacks on civilian infrastructure are war crimes. Silence means complicity. So far, the United Nations has remained silent, which can be understood as permission for Turkey to attack the civilian population in North and East Syria.
Accordingly, we call on the United Nations to fulfill its humanitarian and human rights responsibilities to stop the Turkish state's attacks on North and East Syria and to protect the lives of civilians.
Stop the Turkish aggression on North and East Syria!”
SIGNATORIES
Civil Diplomacy Center
TEV-DEM (Democratic Society Movement)
Union of Civil Society Organizations-Raqqa
Union of Civil Society Organizations-Tabqa
Kongra Star- Zenobia Women’s Assembly
Organization Against Violence SARA
Free Media Union
Union of Intellectuals West Kurdistan
University of Rojava
The Culture and Art Movement
The Municipalities and Environment Committee in al-Jezeera Region
Afrin Social Association- Idlib Green Council
Federations of War Wounded in NES
Green Braid Organization
The Kurdish Red Crescent
Unity of Beliefs and Religions Mesopotamia
The campaign can be signed electronically at the following link:
