In a public statement, the Armenian Social Council expressed its rejection of the Turkish aggression against northern and eastern Syria. Condemning the attacks of the Turkish state, the council affirmed that the intensified attacks will not deter the people of northern and eastern Syria from resisting the Turkish military escalation in the region.
In its statement, the Armenian Social Assembly declared that it would fight the attacks on its lands with its own identity and language: “We will not take a single step backwards. We know the murderous, genocidal Turkish state from our history. While the Turkish state continues its attacks in line with its history of massacres, we, as children of genocide, will defend the lands we live in and we will not abandon our fields of struggle”.
Referring to drone attacks, the council added: “We do not accept the recent intensified drone attacks on the lands of northern and eastern Syria. Three people in the civilian vehicle, including the co-chair of Qamishlo Canton, Yusra Derweş, lost their lives as a result of the drone attack on 20 June. It is clear that the will of all the peoples living in Rojava was targeted with this attack.”
Noting that the Turkish state is attempting to break the will of the resisting people, the statement concluded with these words: “We, the children of the genocide, who followed the footsteps of the Armenian Fedayeen who chose resistance and not those who accepted surrender and betrayal, will continue to defend the Rojava revolution and the Rojava women’s revolution together with all Arab, Kurdish, Assyrian, Yazidi, Chaldean, Turkmen and Assyrian peoples living in Rojava.”
The Armenian Council
The Armenian Social Council is a civil organization of the Armenian people founded in January 2020 in north-eastern Syria. The council advocates the need for Armenians who lived as Muslims and were assimilated as Arabs or Kurds after the genocide to learn their mother tongue and know their own history. It carries out social, historical and cultural studies within the Armenian community. The organization is also working on a census of the Armenians who came to Syria in 1915 after the genocide committed by the Ottoman state.