Protesters inquire Turkey to halt alleged chemical weapons use
DÜSSELDORF, Germany — Countless numbers of persons shown Saturday in the German metropolis of Düsseldorf against Turkey’s alleged use of chemical weapons in the Kurdish region and the intercontinental community’s obvious apathy about the difficulty.
The contributors begun at two individual places ahead of signing up for under the motto “Stop Chemical Warfare in Kurdistan!” Speakers criticized global governments for not performing a lot more to handle alleged war crimes that have been denied by Turkey.
Düsseldorf law enforcement spokesman Marcel Fiebig advised The Associated Press that “several thousand” folks took component in the demonstration organized by Kon-Med, a Germany-based mostly affiliation of Kurdish teams.
Final month, Turkish officers strongly turned down the allegations produced by Kurdish militants that the Turkish military services applied chemical weapons against the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Get together, or PKK, in northern Iraq, insisting the army doesn’t have such weapons.
Those people statements did minimal to assure Saturday’s demonstrators, who have been critical of Germany’s reticence to look into.
“The federal government not too long ago declared that it sees no way for an intercontinental investigation into the Turkish use of chemical weapons. From our level of see, this is scandalous,” stated Zübeyde Zümrüt of Kon-Med. “The federal authorities supports the regime in Ankara politically, financially and also militarily. If the federal federal government remains inactive in the confront of these crimes, we believe that that it is jointly liable for the crimes in Kurdistan.”
Past month, Turkish law enforcement detained Dr. Sebnem Korur Fincanci, president of the Turkish Medical Association, just after she named for an unbiased investigation into allegations that Turkey’s armed forces experienced used chemical weapons against Kurdish militants.
Fincanci, a top human legal rights activist, was detained on fees of disseminating “terrorist propaganda,” according to the Ankara main prosecutor’s office.
Turkey has been conducting a series of military functions in northern Iraq because 2019, declaring it can be targeting the PKK to avert it from launching cross-border attacks on Turkey.
DÜSSELDORF, Germany — Countless numbers of persons shown Saturday in the German metropolis of Düsseldorf against Turkey’s alleged use of chemical weapons in the Kurdish region and the intercontinental community’s obvious apathy about the difficulty.
The contributors begun at two individual places ahead of signing up for under the motto “Stop Chemical Warfare in Kurdistan!” Speakers criticized global governments for not performing a lot more to handle alleged war crimes that have been denied by Turkey.
Düsseldorf law enforcement spokesman Marcel Fiebig advised The Associated Press that “several thousand” folks took component in the demonstration organized by Kon-Med, a Germany-based mostly affiliation of Kurdish teams.
Final month, Turkish officers strongly turned down the allegations produced by Kurdish militants that the Turkish military services applied chemical weapons against the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Get together, or PKK, in northern Iraq, insisting the army doesn’t have such weapons.
Those people statements did minimal to assure Saturday’s demonstrators, who have been critical of Germany’s reticence to look into.
“The federal government not too long ago declared that it sees no way for an intercontinental investigation into the Turkish use of chemical weapons. From our level of see, this is scandalous,” stated Zübeyde Zümrüt of Kon-Med. “The federal authorities supports the regime in Ankara politically, financially and also militarily. If the federal federal government remains inactive in the confront of these crimes, we believe that that it is jointly liable for the crimes in Kurdistan.”
Past month, Turkish law enforcement detained Dr. Sebnem Korur Fincanci, president of the Turkish Medical Association, just after she named for an unbiased investigation into allegations that Turkey’s armed forces experienced used chemical weapons against Kurdish militants.
Fincanci, a top human legal rights activist, was detained on fees of disseminating “terrorist propaganda,” according to the Ankara main prosecutor’s office.
Turkey has been conducting a series of military functions in northern Iraq because 2019, declaring it can be targeting the PKK to avert it from launching cross-border attacks on Turkey.