The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal on Rojava vs. Turkey will be held today, Wednesday, and tomorrow in Brussels.

The Tribunal will focus on the Turkish state’s attacks on Rojava between 2018 and 2024, and will present them for scrutiny in a broad and documented format. Already, the reports / documents / data made by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, prestigious human rights institutions, and many civil society organizations have shed some light on the picture.

The program for today is as follows: 

Opening Session: Member of the Prosecution Team

09.30-09.40 - Welcome speech Prof. Gerrit Loots (Free University of Brussels)

09.40-10.05 - Presentation of the Members of the Tribunal

10.05-10:45 Opening Statement by the Prosecution: Jan Fermon and Ceren Uysal

Session 1

10.45-11.25

Displacement of population and ethnic engineering in Afrin - Efstathios C. Efstathiou - Rengin Ergül

11.25-12.05

Massacres, bombings and torture of displaced civilians in Tel Rifat - Rengin Ergül

12.05-12.20

Torture, kidnapping and arbitrary detentions in Afrin - Efstathios C. Efstathiou and Socrates Tziazas

12.20-12.30

Questions by Judges

Session 2

13.30-14.20

Witness statement by Ibrahim Sheho on the situation in Afrin

14.20-15.00

Situation in Sere Kanye and Tel Abyad (Displacement of population and ethnic engineering and the use of banned weapons) - Urko Azurtza

Session 3

15.15-15.55

Attacks on energy infrastructure - Disruption of water supplies - Ezio Menzione  

15.55-16.35

Attacks on medical infrastructure, Kobane hospital etc. - Heike Geisweid

16.35-17.15

Destruction of the environment - Declan Owens

17.15-17.50

Questions by the judges

17.50-18.00

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