RIGHT OF REPLY: Turkey respects the territorial integrity of Syria and has no secret ulterior agenda By Elif Comoglu Ulgenis
I have read the piece with great regret both as the Turkish Ambassador to South Africa and as a woman. Unfortunately, the Op-Ed details an imaginary and naïve stance that is detached from reality, even borderline hallucinatory about the ongoing Syrian war, packed with overtly unfair and fallacious judgements on Turkey’s foreign policy regarding its neighbour Syria.
enshrined in Article 51 of the UN Charter and UNSC Resolutions, in the face of threats posed by competing terrorist groups along its 911 kilometres long border with Syria. The Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch Operations were instrumental in ensuring border security through the elimination of terrorist threat emanating from Syria, including DAESH, Al Qaeda and PKK /PYD-YPG, a fact which was made publicly clear by the Turkish government on many occasions.
PKK’s women are occasionally praised in the international media for their fight against DAESH. However, the sad reality is that despite their gender-based propaganda, the testimonies of the female victims demonstrate that women are abused, sexually harassed, restrained, used to attract male members and discriminated against within PKK. Moreover, PKK is known to abduct children, both boys and girls, and force them to join the terrorist organisation.
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