Members of the US Congress demand that Erdogan's visit to Washington be canceled

Washington-SANA

Republican and Democratic members of Congress demanded US President Donald Trump to cancel his invitation to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to visit the White House against the backdrop of Turkish aggression on Syrian territory.

In a letter to Trump on Nov. 8, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Elliott Engel, and other members of Congress who signed it, expressed "deep concern" about Erdogan's planned visit to the White House tomorrow, The Hill said. Wednesday.

In the letter, the MPs identified several reasons for their request to cancel the visit, including the Turkish aggression on Syria, which, according to the letter, “caused the death of civilians and the displacement of thousands of people from their homes in northern Syria and had serious consequences for US national security and led to deep divisions in the Alliance. North Atlantic "NATO" and caused a humanitarian crisis on the ground. "

The ongoing Turkish aggression on Syrian territory in the countryside of al-Hasakah and Raqqa resulted in the death and injury of dozens of civilians, the destruction of the infrastructure of power plants, the destruction of electrical networks and the destruction of houses.The targeting of ovens, churches and mosques by brutal shelling of the Turkish occupation forces led to the displacement of tens of thousands of civilians from their areas.

Liz Cheney, speaker of the US House of Representatives Republican Congress, called on the State Department to deny entry to anyone who visited Washington with Erdogan in 2017 and took part in the attack on protesters against him in front of the residence of the ambassador of the Turkish regime, injuring ten people.

In a letter sent to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday, Cheney said, according to the site "The Hill" that the assault of Erdogan's guards in 2017 was not the first example of this violence, pointing out that "thugs" of the President of the Turkish regime used authoritarian methods against the Americans during his visits Previous to the United States.

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