The People’s Assembly of Syria has condemned in the strongest terms the Turkish Parliament’s renewal of the so-called “authorisation” granted to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to send military forces to Syria and Iraq for a period of two more years.
The Assembly noted that “the behaviour of this regime and its acts of aggression on Syrian territory are unacceptable on the legal, moral and humanitarian levels.”
“Erdogan’s acts and policies directly threaten international and regional peace and security, and they contradict the most basic standards of compliance with international and humanitarian law, human rights, the principles and goals of the UN charter which are based on the sovereign equality among states and the respect for their political independence and territorial integrity, and the Security Council’s resolutions related to the situation in Syria,” the Assembly said in a statement.
The statement called on international, regional and parliamentary organisations and unions to condemn all aggressive acts of the Turkish regime and to force it to immediately stop its aggression on Syrian territory and to fully and unconditionally withdraw from the lands it occupied.
The Turkish occupation of Syrian lands, much like the US presence in support of Kurdish militias in northeastern Syria, is illegal according to international law.
Source: SANA
