The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal held its 54th session on Rojava vs. Turkey in Brussels on 5 and 6 February. The final verdict will be shared on 26 March in a special event in the European Parliament in Brussels.
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is a judicial platform established to investigate and prosecute war crimes committed by the Turkish State and its paramilitary forces in North and East Syria since the occupation of Afrin in 2018 up to the present day.
The tribunal’s preliminary statement stated: "Turkey’s attacks on Syrian territory, without UN Security Council authorization, amount to an international crime of aggression. The pattern of attacks, bombings, shelling, drone attacks and atrocities against civilians, the forced displacements and demographic engineering through replacement of populations, the destruction of power and damage to water supplies, the environmental damage, the destruction of cultural heritage and educational institutions, the use of rape, torture, secret detention – are all contrary to international law, constitute crimes against humanity and war crimes, and are indicative of genocide."