IZMIR - Speaking about Turkey's attacks on Northern and Eastern Syria, DEM Party Izmir MP Burcugul Cubuk said that Turkey carries out these attacks every time by producing excuses. Stating that these attacks are not independent from the Kurdistan geography, Burcugul said, "Basically, there is a tendency to kneel down."

 

On the night of 23 October, Turkey's attacks on Northern and Eastern Syria targeted civilian populated areas and many people lost their lives. 

 

In a statement released by the Press Liaison Centre of the Internal Security Forces of Northern and Eastern Syria, it was stated that Turkey launched 685 attacks in total, 99 with reconnaissance planes, 13 with warplanes and 573 with artillery shells. 

 

As a result of the attacks, 17 people, including 14 civilians and 3 security forces, lost their lives, while 48 people, including 39 civilians and 9 security forces, were wounded.

 

The cities of Til Rifet, Grê Spî, Dêrik, Qamişlo, Kobanê, around Qereçox Mountain, Amûdê, Rimêlan, Efrîn-Şehba, Minbîç, Tirbespiyê, Swêdîyê, Eyn Îsa and Til Temîr and their villages were bombed. On the other hand, the centre of Kobanê and 366 villages were left without electricity due to Turkey's targeting of the power plant.

 

Speaking about the attacks, Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) Izmir MP Burcugul Cubuk evaluated Turkey's attacks on Northern and Eastern Syria.

 

‘Rojava is a revolutionary reality that disrupts many plans in the Middle East’

 

Burcugul reminded that AKP President Tayyip Erdogan said that he would perform the Eid prayer in Damascus during the beginning of the war in Syria and stated that this did not happen and one of the reasons for this was the international struggle against the gangs in Rojava. 

 

Burcugul said, "The indigenous peoples living in Rojava, from Turkey, Kurdistan, international revolutionaries from all over the world, were immortalised by fighting. Today, there are still revolutionaries standing there for the responsibilities they have taken in the continuation of the work they started. For this reason, Rojava is a revolutionary reality that disrupted many plans in the Middle East. 

 

It also showed the peoples of Kurdistan that defeat is not permanent. Because before the war in Syria began, many Kurds in Rojava did not even have an identity. The state justified this in various ways. There was a Kurdish population left without an identity. There were Kurds who were deprived of their right to exist. From such a geography, such a reality emerged."

 

 ‘They say the same things as Israeli ministers’

 

Burcugul stated that Rojava has disrupted the plans of the war being waged in the Middle East through Israel and the Greater Middle East Project, and said that the energy emanating from Rojava did not only affect other parts of Kurdistan.

 

Burcugul said, "It revealed another equation both in the Middle East and in the world. Therefore, it is an object of hatred for this government. We have seen that Rojava has been attacked many times under various pretexts. 

 

We have seen some assassination attacks in Rojava. Moreover, despite the Syrian state's very clear statement ‘stop supporting jihadists in our sovereign territory and withdraw’. They have attacked civilian settlements here many times. When Hakan Fidan said during the budget negotiations last year that civilian settlements were never attacked and that they were, and I quote, terrorist nests, we opposed this in the Parliament. We said he was saying the same thing as Israeli ministers. And he is saying the same thing."

 

‘Attacks against Rojava are carried out under various pretexts’

 

Burcugul added that enemy law is applied in Rojava and every living creature there is attacked, and said that these attacks are carried out under various pretexts every time.

 

Burcugul stated, ‘It is defeated in Garê and attacks Rojava. In an issue related to Bashur, he takes his anger from there. Especially in the situation in Bashur and Rojava, which is formed in the vacuum of the hegemony of the sovereign states, it attacks these places as a threat. 

 

It also attacks these places to change any political agenda. It also attacks here to feed nationalist delusions. I think that the issue against Rojava is not only Rojava, but the whole Kurdistan geography. If it does not attack Rojhilat today, it will attack Rojhilat when it needs secret co-operation with Israel, but only because it is afraid of Iran."