Democratic Society Movement TEV-DEM issued a press statement on the matter and said, “We are calling on all international powers with a role in Syria to fulfill their duties and responsibilities towards Turkey’s practices.”

The TEV-DEM statement is as follows:

“We are waging a great struggle to primarily achieve social justice for all peoples in Syria, Northern Syria and Rojava, to defend and protect the peace, and to form a democratic system.

But on the other side there are powers that wish to skew the progression towards other ways. These powers are developing plots against Syria and attempting to enact various plans.

These powers also have a hand in the domestic conflict that emerged in Syria and in the peoples’ blood being shed. They are now after fulfilling their own fantasies through the fracturing of Syria.

At the top of these plans comes the Turkish state’s. There is no solution to the issues in Syria in there, and the Syrian peoples stand to gain nothing.

Recently there have been many meetings between Turkey and Iran. As a result of these meetings, they have made deals that go against the gains of our peoples.

The history of conflict between the Turkish state and Iran dates back to the Ottomans and the Safavids. Despite these conflicts, they come together to act as enemies against our people.

This alliance is against the democratic nation project and the democratic system our people have developed in Rojava and Northern Syria.

The Turkish state has given many concessions to Russia and Iran in return for their silence towards its practices.

Following these meetings, Turkish scout planes have started to fly over Efrîn. This is a declaration of war against our peoples. This is trampling international conventions and United Nations laws. The Turkish state is trying to create excuses for attacking our people through deceitful propaganda. Their goal in that is to prevent the implementation of the peoples’ democratic system.

We as the Tevgera Civaka Demokratik (TEV-DEM) state that our peoples’ march towards freedom will continue. This struggle will end terrorism and build its democratic system. But at the same time, we are calling on the international powers that have a role and influence in Syria to fulfill their duties towards Turkey’s threats and practices.

Our peoples have fought with great will in areas with terror and have displayed great heroism. They have written a new history with this struggle. Kobanê, Raqqa and Shaddadi are the most vivid examples for that, and they show our march towards peace and a solution. Our people will resist attacks and protect the gains of the revolution in Efrîn like they did in these places. The resistance developed in Efrîn will be the corner stone of the democratic federal system in the North. But the international laws also dictate the Turkish state be stopped.

If the Turkish state continues with its practices, our people will continue to resist. This is, by international law, the most legitimate of rights. That is why the parties with influence should support the democratic project. This project is the Syrian national solution project. That is why the international powers should not stay silent. Because being against Efrîn is being against all of Syria and the democratic project.”