Rojava Peoples' Tribunal

Permanent Peoples' Tribunal on Rojava vs. Turkey 5-6 February 2025 📍Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), Belgium

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🔴The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal's official press release on its final judgement.

https://t.co/1bwjVrOc48

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🔴An appeal to international law
The Tribunal views its judgment as a moral and legal appeal to the international community to seriously defend the principles of international law and the rights of oppressed peoples. “Turkey's actions endanger world peace and international security,” the commission concludes.

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🔺Take Turkey to Justice! In view of the documented crimes, the Tribunal demands: 📷An end to the Turkish occupation in Rojava and international pressure to withdraw 📷Economic and political sanctions against Turkey 📷Establishment of an independent UN or EU commission to investigate the human rights situation in Rojava➡️

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🔺Turkey guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity

The Tribunal finds that Turkish forces and Turkish-backed jihadist militias have committed war crimes as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. These include:
➡️ Bombing hospitals, schools and water infrastructure
➡️ Use of white phosphorus in October 2019 in Girê Spî and Serêkaniyê
➡️ Extrajudicial killings of civilians by allied groups
➡️ Systematic torture, abductions, and enforced disappearances

➡️In addition, crimes against humanity were established, in particular through so-called demographic restructuring. After the occupation of Efrîn, over 200,000 Kurds were displaced, expropriations were carried out, and cultural and religious sites were destroyed.

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🔴"Turkey Is Guilty"
The 80-page judgement of the PPE, that found Turkey guilty, is based on extensive evidence documenting, among other things, targeted attacks on civilian infrastructure, torture, abductions, arbitrary detentions, and displacements. The destruction of cultural and historical sites of the Kurdish and Yazidi communities is also recorded.

Particularly serious are the findings regarding Turkey's military operations in violation of international law – including “Euphrates Shield” (2016), “Olive Branch” (2018) and “Source of Peace” (2019). According to the report, these operations led to ongoing occupations in areas such as Efrîn, Girê Spî (Tall Abyad) and Serêkaniyê (Ras al-Ain) and violated Syria's territorial sovereignty.

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🔴Permanent Peoples' Tribunal finds Turkey guilty
In the final report presented at a press conference at the European Parliament in Brussels, the Turkish state is accused of a series of serious crimes, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts contrary to international law in Rojava.

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Some impressions from yesterday's presentation of PPE's judgment on Rojava vs. Turkey

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Live Stream and record of the presentation: https://t.co/2MvcKfvBMf

Further information can be found at: https://t.co/EKYRqE7hU5

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🔴The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal's official press release on its final judgement.

https://t.co/1bwjVrOc48

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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi stated the following in her speech after the final judgement’s presentation: “How long is this crime going to continue why is no one putting and end to it? Let’s don’t forget that these crimes are not only committed against Kurds in Rojava but in Turkey, Iran and Iraq. I hope the world will not turn a blind eye to the situation of the Kurds, human rights activist and journalist be more active!”

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🔴Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi in her speech after the final judgement's presentation:
"How long is this crime going to continue why is no one putting and end to it? I hope the world will not turn a blind eye to the situation of the Kurds, human rights activist and journalist be more active!"

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🔴The final verdict of the tribunal states:

The purpose of this Tribunal is to counter what Sartre denounced as the ‘crime of silence’, in the face of the atrocities masquerading as anti-terrorist operations which this Session has revealed. As the schoolgirl survivors of the atrocity at Schemoka school declared, ‘No one should turn a blind eye to Erdoğan; no one should be silent against the Turkish State’.
The Tribunal is a tribune of visibility and the right to speak; the imperative on those who listen is to act, to take the messages conveyed in our recommendations to those with the power to enact them.

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🔴LIVE: Permanent Peoples Tribunal: Rojava vs. Turkey – Conference on the Judgement of the Tribunal at a special event in the European Parliament.

This verdict comes at a critical and historic moment as efforts toward a peaceful resolution to the Kurdish question in Syria and Turkey gain momentum.

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🔴 Follow the live stream of the final verdict on March 26th 2025 of the Rojava Peoples' Tribunal against Turkey via our live stream : https://t.co/Ka7lkvfiel

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The PPT held a session in Brussels (Feb 5–6, 2025) on serious human rights violations committed by Turkish state in North & East Syria (Rojava) since 2018

Judgment will be presented at the European Parliament, Brussels.
📍Room SPAAK 01 C 047 on March 26, 2025, from 2–4pm CET.