Syria: Appeal to the German Bundestag

The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) is appealing to the German Bundestag to pass a resolution urging the federal government to launch an initiative for peace and stability in Syria. Greater efforts are needed to counter the genocidal attacks by the Islamist regime in Damascus and its allies – Sunni Islamist militias of all stripes – against Kurds and other minorities in northern Syria, which continue unabated. The STP therefore calls for the dispatch of a mediation mission.

“The encirclement of Kobanê and the Syrian-Druze province of al-Suwaida by the regime in Damascus must be ended immediately, and the civilian population must receive humanitarian aid. Likewise, the ongoing abductions and rapes of Alawite women by Islamists in western Syria must be stopped immediately,” the STP writes in its appeal to members of the Bundestag. The approximately 400,000 Kurdish inhabitants of the northern Syrian city of Kobanê have been surrounded for days. The humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly. According to the STP, children have already died there from cold and hunger.

"The unjustified war waged by the regime in Damascus against Kurds, Druze, and Alawites is making coexistence in Syria increasingly difficult. This brutal war is contributing to the further disintegration of the state. As a result, millions of people are once again being forced to flee. The existence of other religious minorities, such as the few remaining Christians, Yazidis, Ismailis, and Mandaeans in Syria and Iraq, also continues to be threatened," warns Dr. Kamal Sido, STP's Middle East consultant. “In Germany and the EU, politicians must finally have the courage to take responsibility and take the initiative. We call for a mediation mission to end the ongoing war against Kurds, Druze, and Alawites and to peacefully resolve the existing conflicts in Syria,” appeals the STP.

The German government is also called upon to exert pressure on Turkey. “Turkish leader Erdoğan is largely responsible for the violence and terror in Syria. With a lot of money from Qatar, he has become an influential representative of international Sunni Islamism. It is high time to stop him before the violence and terror spread not only in Syria and the Middle East, but worldwide,” says Middle East consultant Sido.

The ongoing war by the regime in Damascus against the Kurds in Syria could also lead to further conflicts between Kurds and Turks, warns the STP. This would jeopardize peaceful coexistence in Germany and throughout Europe. The Kurdish population in all parts of Kurdistan and in the diaspora is increasingly dissatisfied with Western policies that support the regime in Damascus and Sunni Islamism. At the same time, the media of the Syrian regime and other Arab Sunni states are increasingly inciting hatred against Kurds, Druze, and Alawites/Alevis. “This hostility between Kurds, Alawites/Alevis, and Druze on the one hand, and Syrians who openly sympathize with the Syrian regime and radical Islamism on the other, jeopardizes peaceful coexistence and is not in the interest of democracy—neither in Germany nor elsewhere,” says the human rights activist. In this context, the STP once again appeals to the protesting Kurds, Druze, and Alawites/Alevis to continue to conduct their protests exclusively in a peaceful manner.

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