AKEL C.C. Press Office, 8^th October 2019, Nicosia

With the blessing of the US, Turkey is launching a new war operation in northern Syria against the country's people. This is a new blatant and flagrant violation of international law, the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria. Turkey's invasion comes at a time when a glimmer of hope had appeared for the termination of the bloody long war.

Erdogan's Turkey, after all, took the lead during all the previous years in the foreign intervention to overthrow the Syrian government and divide the country, with the Turkish government itself supporting the "Islamic State". It is evident, of course, that the Erdogan government, together with the intensification of the repression against the Kurds inside Turkey, is at the same time also aiming at the extermination of the struggling Kurds of Syria, whose forces clashed heroically with the murderous "Islamic State".

AKEL denounces Turkey's new invasion of Syria and expresses its solidarity with Syria and its people, who continues to pay with its blood and the uprooting of its people as refugees, the cost of the imperialist plans.