TURKMENS ARE LOSING HOPE AS THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY REMAIN SILENT ABOUT THE EXECUTIONS AND DETENTIONS OF HUNDREDS OF TURKMENS (AMONG THEM WOMEN AND CHILDREN) BY ISIS IN IRAQ. WHILE THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SHOWS EMPATHY AND IS HELPING THE NON-TURKMEN COMPONENTS OF THE IRAQI PEOPLE, IT IS TURNING A DEAF EAR TO THE APPEALS OF THE TURKMENS.
LES TURKMENES EN IRAK PERDENT L’ESPOIR D’ETRE ENTENDUS
PAR LE GOUVERNEMENT IRAKIEN ET PAR LA COMMUNAUTE INTERNATIONALE, CEUX-CI RESTENT
SILENCIEUX ET INDIFFERENTS SUR LES EXECUTIONS ET LES DETENTIONS DE CENTAINES DE TURKMENES
(PARMI LESQUELS DES FEMMES ET DES ENFANTS) PAR LE GROUPE TERRORISTE DAESH, ALORS QU’ILS
SOUTIENNENT ET AIDENT TOUS LES AUTRES GROUPES RELIGIEUX ET ETHNIQUES EN IRAK QUI
SONT EUX AUSSI VICTIMES DE DAESH. JUSQU'A QUAND CES DEUX POIDS DEUX MESURES ?
ON 8th AUGUST 2015 THE TURKMEN RESCUE FOUNDATION ISSUED A STATEMENT STRONGLY CONDEMNING THE DEAFENING SILENCE OF THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT, OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND OF THE MEDIA ON THE ONGOING MASSACRES COMMITTED AGAINST THE TURKMENS IN IRAQ, IT ACCUSES THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT, THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THE MEDIA OF DOUBLE STANDARDS IN DEALING WITH THE TURKMEN AND NON-TURKMEN COMPONENTS OF THE IRAQI PEOPLE.
In December 2014 the Turkmen Rescue Foundation published a well documented report in Arabic, English and Turkish about the 450 Turkmen civilians, (among whom 50 women and 120 children) who were held captive by the ISIS terrorists. This report was disseminated far and wide, to all governmental and non-governmental organizations, to the media, to international organizations and institutions.
On 8th August 2015 the Turkmen Rescue Foundation informed the international community that the criminal ISIS organization had recently announced through social networking sites that they have executed over 2000 civilians from Mosul, including women and children, accusing them of being apostates because of their jobs in the police, the Electoral Commission, the media and for being candidates in the elections.The Turkmen Rescue Foundation confirmed that 700 among the victims were Turkmen (including women and children) ISIS terrorists carried out public executions of these innocent civilians by firing squads.
The Turkmen Rescue Foundation sends the following message to all inside and outside Iraq:
The deafening silence of everyone towards the ongoing massacres committed against the Turkmen and the violations of their human rights by ISIS terrorists and by other aggressors make us lose hope. Although we, Turkmen, are the third main ethnic component of the Iraqi people (over 2,5 million people) we continue to be discriminated simply for being Turkmen and this makes us feel we are not considered as Iraqi citizens.
The double standard in dealing with the Turkmen and non-Turkmen components of the Iraqi people by the Iraqi government and by the international community is unacceptable.
The deafening silence of everyone towards the ongoing massacres committed against the Turkmen and the violations of their human rights by ISIS terrorists and by other aggressors make us lose hope. Although we, Turkmen, are the third main ethnic component of the Iraqi people (over 2,5 million people) we continue to be discriminated simply for being Turkmen and this makes us feel we are not considered as Iraqi citizens.
The double standard in dealing with the Turkmen and non-Turkmen components of the Iraqi people by the Iraqi government and by the international community is unacceptable.
The Turkmen Rescue Foundation demands that the Iraqi government and the international community support the Turkmen fighters (over ten thousand) who have joined the army, the police and the popular mobilization forces and who are combatting ISIS on the front lines, they are fighting to liberate the Turkmen areas of Bashir in Kirkuk, Telafer, Shrikhan, Al Kubban and other areas in Mosul in order to put an end to the sufferings of the Turkmen and save as many lives as possible.
The Turkmen Rescue Foundation calls on the Iraqi Parliament to approve the Turkmen Rights Law which has remained frozen since the previous Parliament, together with the law for the establisment of the new provinces of Talafer and Tuz, as legal valves which can prevent a repeat of the massacres that we see on a daily basis.
The Turkmen Rescue Foundation calls on the Iraqi Parliament to approve the Turkmen Rights Law which has remained frozen since the previous Parliament, together with the law for the establisment of the new provinces of Talafer and Tuz, as legal valves which can prevent a repeat of the massacres that we see on a daily basis.
