NEWS CENTER- 70 ecological organizations working on ecology and democracy from all over the world have released a statement and they call on all people around the world to stop Turkey’s offensive on NE Syria.

 

70 ecological organizations working on ecology and democracy from all over the world have released a statement and they call on all people around the world to stop Turkey’s offensive on NE Syria. The statement says the Syrian people and their nature are faced with a brutal invasion by the Turkish state since 9th October 2019.

 

The statement is as follows;

 

“We, organizations working on ecological and democratic future, condemn the war that the Turkish government has unilaterally called on Northeast Syria. This war has absolutely no legitimate justification, but rather is a crime and is deepening the war in the region in a very serious way. It is an invasion attempt which targets the democratic achievements of the Kurds, Assyrians, Arabs and others living together peacefully in Northeast Syria. In 2012 the liberation process started in Rojava, the predominantly Kurdish region within Syria, and afterwards spread to many other parts of Northeast Syria with the defeat of the terrorist Islamic State (IS). The model of self-administration called "democratic autonomy" is based primarily on the liberation of women, direct democracy, ethnic and religious diversity and ecological principles. It is by far the most peaceful and democratic region within Syria after eight years of disastrous war. This democratic region must be defended by all people and organizations all around the world if the opportunity for any democratic change is to be maintained for Syria!

 

The first two days of the ongoing attacks show that the Turkish army also purposefully targets civilians and their livelihoods. Water supply facilities, dams, electricity power plants and other infrastructure has been destroyed. The whole of the natural world, which hosts human society, is heavily impacted by air and artillery attacks. Dozens of projects for an ecological, democratic and gender liberated life, some of which have been established with the participation of many international people and civil society organizations, are also under threat. Once more we experience: war is a crime on people and on nature.

 

The people are resisting this invasion and attempt to change the demographics of the region with all means possible, but there is a huge imbalance while fighting in self defence against a big NATO state. The role of the USA, which gave space to Turkey for this brutal war, is more than shameful, but all other Western states, Russia, as well other regional and global states, must be criticized intensively too.

 

If the war of the Turkish government on Northeast Syria, which is cleary a violation of international law, is not be halted, it will have catastrophic results and will solve no problems. We challenge all international organizations and governments who claim to be democratic to speak up against this war.

 

We call on all democratic and ecological organizations to raise your voices for the people of Northeast Syria, join and organize public democratic actions, and immediately demand that politicians take all steps possible to halt this brutal war against innocent people, democracy and nature!”

 

A call by:

 

Mesopotamia Ecology Movement, North Kurdistan/Turkey

 

Make Rojava Green Again, Rojava

 

Internationalist Commune, Rojava

 

Waterkeeper Iraq

 

Civil Development Organization (CDO), National NGO, Iraq

 

Save the Tigris Campaign, Iraq

 

Iraqi Civil Society Soloidarity Initiative (ICSSI), Iraq

 

Movement of Dam Affected People (MAB), Brazil

 

Movement of Dam Affected People from Latin America (MAR), The AmericA

 

Ende Gelände, Germany

 

Balkanka Association Sofia, Bulgaria

 

European Water Movement

 

Ekolologistak Martxan, Basque Country

 

Komite Internazionalistak, Basque Country

 

Kurdistanekin Elkartasun Ekimena, Basque Country

 

Catalan Network for a New Water Culture, Catalonia

 

Cambridge Social Ecology, UK

 

Italian Forum of Water Movements

 

FridaysForFuture Frankfurt, Germany

 

Association Town Partnership Oldenburg-Efrîn, Germany

 

Metro Center for Journalists Right & Advocacy, Iraq

 

Fundacja Zielone Światło, Poland

 

Ecosocialist Horizons, USA

 

Inter-American Vigilance for the Defense and the Right to Water (Red VIDA), The Americas

 

Kareza Institution, Iran

 

Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive, North-Kurdistan/Turkey

 

Chiya Environmental Institution, Iran

 

Green Kurdistan Environmental Organization, Iran

 

Green Chiya Organization, Iran

 

Mariwan Cultural and Literary Organization, Iran

 

Rojiyar Cultural and Literary Organization, Iran

 

Plan C, UK

 

Kurdistan Solidarity Network, UK

 

Movement of Defence of Water, Land and Environment (MODATIMA), Chile

 

Mariwan Teachers Union, Iran

 

Ronan Scientific and Cultural Center, Iran

 

The Corner House, UK

 

Solidarity Economy Association, UK

 

Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP), Catalonia

 

Pajin Environmenal Organization. Iran

 

Saqiz Environment protectors Organization. Iran

 

Ashti Cultural Development Foundation Bane. Iran

 

Platform for Public and Community Partnerships of the America’s, PAPC

 

Fundación Abril, Bolivia

 

Ecos, El Salvador

 

Corporación Ecológica y Cultural Penca de Sabila, Colombia

 

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society, UK

 

Hetaw Environmental Organization of Sardasht. Iran

 

Shney Nojin Organization of Sine. Iran

 

Green Kurdistan Population. Iran

 

Sardasht Environment Protectors Institution. Iran

 

EcoMujer, Germany

 

Red de Sistemas Comunitarios y Comités por la Defensa del Agua, México

 

Agua para Tod@s, Agua para la Vida, México

 

Devon and Cornwall Green Anti Capitalist Forum, UK

 

Umweltgewekschaft e.V. - Regional Group Bremen/Oldenburg, Germany

 

Bristol Social Ecology, UK

 

Danish Ecologist Tannie Nyboe, Denmark

 

Solidarity Economy Association, UK

 

Kurdistan Green Jiwan Organization, Iran

 

Baroje Literary Center, Iran

 

Zagros Oak Organization of Rabbat, Iran

 

Yaqui Music Collective, USA

 

First Ecosocialist International

 

Campaign against Animal Factories, Niedersachsen, Germany

 

Plataforma Ciudadana Zaragoza sin Fractura, Spain

 

Asociacion de Cultura Popular Alborada, Spain

 

Aigua és Vida, Catalonia

 

Associació Catalana d'Enginyeria Sense Fronteres, Catalonia

 

Moviment per l'aigua pública i democràtica, Catalonia

 

Fridays For Future, UK

 

Individuals:

 

Himanshu Thakkar, South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People, India

 

Janet Biehl, Independist Scholar, USA

 

Dr Derek Wall, former International Coordinator of the Green Party of England and Wales

 

Linda Farthing, Journalist, Bolivia

 

Eyal Rozenberg, Activist, Palestine/Israel

 

Prof. Felix Padel, Wales, UK

 

Joost Jongerden, Associate Professor Wageningen University, Netherlands

 

Debbie Bookchin, Activist and Writer, USA

 

Abdurrezzak İlge, Mardin Artuklu University, Fine Arts Faculty, Turkey

 

Sina Arnold, Academician, Germany

 

Professor Kariane Westrheim, University of Bergen, Norway. Chair of EUTCC.

 

Federico Venturini, PhD, University of Udine, Italy

 

Enrica Saraullo, International Solidarity Officer, International Workers of the World, UK

 

Gisela Penteker, IPPNW, Germany

 

Heike Geisweid, Bochum, Germany, Lawyer

 

Pete Davies, Organising Department Chair, Industrial Workers of the World, UK

 

Erling Folkvord, Former MP in Norway and today the leader of Solidarity with Kurdistan

 

Nadia Alexan, Professor, Canada

 

Kati Engel, Member of Thuringia Parliament, DIE LINKE, Germany

 

Beata Nowak, Co-Chief Editor of Zielone Wiadomości, Poland

 

Women's Strike Assembly, Cymru (Wales)

 

Kurdish Solidarity, Cymru (Wales)

 

IWW, Cymru (Wales)

 

Mar Carrera, Education Activist, Catalonia

 

Giannis Papadimitriou, Ativist, Greece

 

Wasilis von Rauch, Ecology Activist, Germany

 

Rüdiger Bahr, IG-Metall member, Germany

 

Matt Heinrich, UK

 

Julian Melamade, Brighton IWW Secretary, UK

 

Raphaël Favier, France

 

Dr. Savaş Ergül, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Ireland

 

Burcu Seyben, Academician, USA

 

Prof. Neşe Özgen, Duke University, USA