We, as Medya News, enclose for your information our recent coverage of
the allegations of Turkey’s use of chemical weapons against Kurdish guerrillas
in Iraqi Kurdistan and the IPPNW’s report, which we hope you will find useful
in your related works.
Doctors call for urgent investigation into claims of Turkish chemical
attacks
Doctors who visited the Kurdistan Region of Iraq called for an urgent
independent investigation into claims of chemical weapons use by Turkish
military forces.
HERE, 12.10.2022
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Kurdish guerrillas publish footage of chemical weapons victims
Two guerrillas appear to have fallen victim to Turkish chemical weapons
in a video released by the People’s Defence Forces (HPG).
HERE, 18.10.2022
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HDP calls on international agencies to respond to Turkey’s alleged
chemical attacks
The central executive board of the Peoples’ Democratic Party called on
the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations
to work more effectively regarding mounting evidence for the use of chemical
weapons by Turkey in military operations in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
HERE, 18.10.2022
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Turkey chemical weapons allegations spark protests in Europe
Many Kurdish institutions and citizens in European cities launched
protests to demand action after an alleged Turkish chemical weapons attack
against Kurdish guerrillas that resulted in 17 deaths.
HERE, 19.10.2022.
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Turkey’s chemical use akin to Saddam’s in Halabja: Kurdish organisations
Kurdish political parties and organisations on Wednesday condemned
Turkey’s use of chemical weapons in cross-border operations in Iraqi Kurdistan
and called on the international community to take action. Turkey’s attitudes
were likened to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s massacre in Halabja,
infamously using chemicals.
HERE, 19.10.2022.
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Imprisoned Kurdish politician addresses Turkey’s alleged chemical
weapons use
In the message he sent from the prison on Wednesday, Selahattin
Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party,
addressed the allegations that Turkey used chemical weapons in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Demirtaş called independent international authorities to conduct an
investigation in the region as the main opposition MP Sezgin Tanrıkulu
announced he would submit a parliamentary question on the subject.
HERE, 20.10.2022.
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Turkey denies alleged chemical attack, launches investigation against
forensic specialist
An investigation was launched against Turkish Medical Association Chair
Şebnem Korur Fincancı hours after the far-right Nationalist Movement Party’s MP
targeted her over her evaluation on a broadcast of Medya Haber regarding the
footage of Turkey’s alleged chemical attack in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) denies the allegation.
HERE, 20.10.2022.
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Political interests obscure use of chemical weapons: IPPNW Director
Gisela Penteker
“Turkey is using chemical weapons, and nobody cares,”
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Director Gisela
Penteker told Medya Haber’s Erem Kansoy, expressing fury and frustration. The
IPPNW’s limited efforts have produced evidence to suggest use of chlorine gas,
according to the director.
HERE, 2./10.2022.
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Forensic expert says Turkey intimidates public on chemical weapons use
allegations
A prominent forensic specialist in Turkey says that authorities aim to
cover up allegations instead of inquiring into them, as an investigation is
launched against her for even commenting on the fresh allegations of Turkey’s
use of chemical weapons in Northern Iraq.
HERE, 21.10.2022.
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Doctors petition for urgent investigation into Turkey’s alleged chemical
attacks
Adding to the growing calls for an urgent and independent investigation
of Turkey’s alleged chemical attacks in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI),
Kurdish doctors and healthcare workers started a petition calling on
international institutions to investigate and to take any necessary further
steps.
HERE, 21.10.2022.
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Evidence on Turkey’s chemical use ‘warrants formal investigation’:
IPPNW’s Jan Van Aken
Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar has already, perhaps unknowingly,
admitted to Turkish Armed Forces’ use of prohibited chemicals in military
operations, which, combined with other indirect evidence, warrants a formal
international investigation on claims that Turkey has used chemical weapons in
the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, according to chemical and biological weapons
expert Jan Van Aken of the International Physicians for the Prevention of
Nuclear War (IPPNW).
HERE, 22.10.2022.
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German government points to OPCW on allegations of Turkey’s use of
banned chemical weapons
“The German government is aware of the media reports” said Katja Keul,
the Minister of State at the German Federal Foreign Office, in her 19 October
answer to German lawmaker Andrej Hunko from the left-wing Die Linke, who asked
what information the German government had on Turkey’s use of chemical weapons
in northern Iraq.
HERE, 22.10.2022.
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Erdoğan says allegations on use of chemical weapons is to throw dirt on
Turkish army
“It is not the first time they are casting aspersions,” Erdoğan said,
referring to people mentioning allegations on the use of chemical weapons.
“This is some dirt they always fling on our army. They think if enough mud is
thrown, some of it will stick.”
HERE, 22.10.2022.
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ΚΟΥΡΔΩΝ, ΑΡΧΕΙΟΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ, 1.11.2022.
