MPs collect signatures against Turkish attacks on Kurdistan Region's soil

Kurdistan 02:43 PM - 2021-05-31

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Members of the Kurdistan Parliament continue a campaign to collect signatures against the Turkish attacks on the Kurdistan Region and the Turkish army's burning of large areas of Kurdistan's farms and forests.

 

MP Balambo Kokoy, on behalf of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, told PUKmedia that "more than 40 deputies signed a memorandum to hold a session on the Turkish attacks on the Kurdistan Region … the signature campaign is continuing."

 

"We call on the federal governments and the Kurdistan Region to take more strict positions to prevent the destruction of Kurdistan’s environment and its wealth," Kokoy said.

 

On April 23, the Turkish army began a large-scale military campaign under the pretext of the presence of PKK fighters, which resulted in the death and injury of civilians, in addition to evacuating dozens of villages and destroying and burning large areas of farms and forests.

 

The bombing of Turkish planes and artillery caused great losses to the environment of the Kurdistan Region, while a specialist in environmental affairs called on the international community to intervene.

 

The latest Turkish bombardment on Duhok areas on Saturday has burned large areas of farms and forests, and the people of those areas have evacuated their villages.

 

Journalist and researcher in environmental affairs Khaled Suleiman told PUKmedia that the Turkish army has deliberately burned farms and forests in the Kurdistan Region, as well as orchards and forests in the Kurdish city of Afrin in western Kurdistan (northern Syria) since its occupation in 2018, explaining that the chauvinistic mentality does not target Kurds only, but rather works to burn the environment Kurdistan and cut trees and then sell them.

 

He stressed the need to confront Turkey's wrong and very dangerous policies against the Kurds and Kurdistan, by adopting all means of civil struggle and moving in the forums of the international community so that Kurdistan does not become without trees and forests.

 

 

 

PUKmedia