Syrian Organisation for Human Rights: Turkish state should face war crimes charges

The occupying Turkish state committed a massacre yesterday (8 December) when 12 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in a drone attack on Misteriha village of Ain Issa.

Speaking to ANHA, Evîn Cuma, one of the executives of the Syrian Organisation for Human Rights, said that the Turkish state and its gangs had carried out such massacres before.

Stating that the occupying Turkish state targets services and public institutions in the region along with the massacres of civilians and aims to depopulate the region with these attacks, Cuma said, “The Turkish state violates international law. In addition to the current attacks, this fact is more visible in Afrîn, Serêkaniyê and Girê Spî.”

Evîn Cuma stressed that targeting civilians is a war crime according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and called on the United Nations and the International Independent Commission of Inquiry to identify the war crimes of the occupying Turkish state and impose the necessary punishments.

Cuma called on the UN Security Council to put pressure on Turkey to stop its aggression against Syria.