The message is that the long-term policy of appeasement must stop and the EU must act "strongly and directly" to stop Turkey's aggression, sent MEP Costas Mavridis, in his intervention on Tuesday evening in the debate on "Turkish air strikes in northern Syria and the Kurdish Region of Iraq" at the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Mavridis, a DIKO MEP and member of the Socialists and Democrats parliamentary group, according to a press release from his office, said that on November 20, Turkey launched a major airstrike in Syria's Rojava and the Kurdistan Region in Iraq, "which continues uninterrupted against targets, including civilians and infrastructure."
This, he noted, was presented by Turkey "in response to the deadly bombing a few days earlier, which the Turkish authorities attributed to the Kurds." He added that "since then, the Turkish narrative has changed a few times, and despite conflicting versions and contradictions, the pro-Kurdish HDP (Peoples' Democracy Party) demand for a full investigation has been rejected by the ruling coalition in the Turkish parliament."
"The Turkish government, as its usual practice, is using the bombing as a pretext to attack the Kurds despite the strong suspicion, which is more than likely, of the involvement of the Turkish Intelligence Services," he said. In conclusion, Mavridis stressed that the ongoing offensive in Syria and Iraq "is another blatant violation of international law, as in the Aegean against Greece and against Cyprus, with the continued military occupation of its northern territories. Enough is enough. The long-term policy of appeasement has failed. The EU must act strongly and immediately to stop Turkey's aggression now."
Source: KYPE
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