The Turkish regime ... the ongoing crime - Posted by: Abdul Rahim Ahmed

Throughout its history, the Ottoman Empire committed many crimes of genocide, enslavement and Turkification against the peoples who were under its occupation, including the Arab people, who suffered nearly four centuries of enslavement, impoverishment and exploitation, especially in the Sultanate’s wars with Europeans, not to mention the ugly massacres committed by the Ottomans against the Armenians a hundred and a hundred years ago. .

Today, the Turkish regime, with its swollen arrogance, is repeating its crimes against the Syrians and Iraqis, whether by practicing cross-border aggression and attempting to penetrate the territories of the two countries to usurp more lands, as it did with the Iskenderun brigade by conspiring with the French occupation at the time, or by using water weapons to pressure the two countries and steal their share of water. Euphrates and Tigris.

More than 23 times, the Turkish occupation forces and their terrorist mercenaries deployed in the vicinity of the Alouk station in the northern countryside of Hasaka cut off drinking water for more than a million Syrian citizens in Hasakah and its countryside in a described war crime in which water was used as a weapon of war and collective punishment in a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and human rights law that Guarantees and guarantees the rights of every human being to have access to safe drinking water, as it is a basic right of life.

The Turkish regime, which has sponsored, financed and trained terrorists for ten years and engaged in defending them in Idlib, was not satisfied with that, but rather, for weeks as in the previous year, it cut off the water of the Euphrates River and stole the share of Syria and Iraq of its water, so that the water supply decreased from 500 cubic meters per second according to the agreement. The site between the two countries in 1987 amounted to 200 cubic meters, which led to a decrease in the water level of the Euphrates Dam and the cessation of electricity production in it, as well as threatening millions of residents' crops along the riverbed in Syria and Iraq.

The Khabur River, which is the main source of irrigation water in Al-Hasakah Governorate, was also not spared from the ambitions and crimes of the Turkish regime, as the river was completely dry due to the theft of a Syrian share of its water, which threatens most of the agricultural crops in the governorate.

The crime of the Turkish regime takes place in broad daylight without any of the international political and humanitarian organizations moving, and despite all media appeals and all official messages sent by the Syrian government to these organizations to stop the Turkish regime’s crimes against citizens in Syria and Iraq, the crime continues with the aggravation of its severity on the agricultural reality. In both countries.

The silence of international organizations towards this described crime constitutes a cover for the crimes of the Turkish regime as they do about the Israeli violations against the Palestinian people and attacks against Syria, and this position has become a dominant feature of those organizations, which the Syrians are well aware that they only move to pressure their country and participate in the crime committed by Western countries Against them.

Erdogan's crime against the Syrians in the water war is no different from his crime of supporting terrorism and stealing land, and it is not different from the crime of his Ottoman ancestors who colonized the Arab world for 400 years, robbed it of its goods and spread poverty in it, and it is a continuation of their crime against the Armenian people and the war of extermination that they practiced against them 106 years ago and the memory of it passed. Recently dire.

The "new Ottoman" crime in all its forms against its neighbors will not stop except with a joint Syrian-Iraqi stance supported by those affected by the Turkish regime's policies, and both sides must coordinate positions today to confront Erdogan's aggression against the two brotherly peoples, whether through direct aggression and support for terrorism or at the level of the water war that is no less dangerous. About the war of terror.