The international community bears "moral responsibility" for the "unjustified and illegal attack" of the Turkish forces in the Kurdish city of Afrin in Syria, where a real "ethnic cleansing" is taking place, complained today Khaled Isa, the representative of France in France. .
"There is a moral responsibility for the international community in the face of an unjustified and illegal attack," he told AFP the day after Afrin was occupied by Turkish troops and Syrian rebel allies who ousted the Kurdish militia from the city. of the People (YPG).
The militia, which has been described as "terrorist" by Ankara, is a valuable ally in Syria of the Washington-led international coalition against Islamic State.
"What is happening in Afrin is an ethnic cleansing and the great powers remain spectators," insisted a spokesman for Rozava, which controls parts of northern and northeastern Syria that were recaptured two years ago by jihadist groups.
"We are disappointed to see that the fighters who fought valiantly against Daesh (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) are being left at the mercy of the Turkish army, an ally of the jihadists, abandoned under the Ankara bombs," he said.
"Turkey will not stop in Afrin," he warned, expressing concern about the fate of the Syrian city of Manbij, about 100km east of Afrin.