The Tribunal focuses 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: 

Session 4

09.30-10.30

Targeted femicides of prominent women as a tool to dismantle gender dimension of democratic confederalism. Use of drones attacks against civilians as a tool to obtain the indirect transfer of populations, specially women and children. - Barbaa Spinalli - Member of the Prosecution Team

10.30-11.00 Coffe Break

Session 5

11.00-11.30

Secret prisons: arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearance and sexual violence - Anni Pues

11.30-12.00

Cultural and historical erasure - Socrates Tziazas

12.00-12.30

Questions by the judges 12.30-13.30 Lunch

Session 6

13.30-14.00

Bombing of Schemeko School – Rengin Ergul

14.00-14.30

Bombing of the Simav Printing House – Florian Bohsung

14.30-14.35

Communication on attacks on journalists by reporter Chris Den Hond

14.35-15.00

Witness statement by Hoshang Hasan on recent developments and the role of Turkey

Jan Fermon and Ceren Uysal

Closing Session

15.00-16-30

Closing statement by the prosecution - Jan Fermon and Ceren Uysal
15.30-16.00 Statement by the defense / Presentation on the lack of an effective remedy in the Turkish judicial system

16.00-17.30 Deliberations of the Tribunal / Program for the public:
Avin SUWED, The Co-President of the Executive Council of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria; Abdul Salam AHMED , The Representative of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria in Beirut; Geneviève Gerogios, Paris Metropolitan Councillor, President of the International Relations Committee of the Council of Paris, Former President of Amnesty International France; Roberto Eufemia, Member of Municipal Council-Rome; Pablo Fernández Fernández, journalist-Spain