Italian academic calls for solidarity with “inspirational” Kurdish administration
🎥#INTERVIEW | Italian academic Dr Federico Venturini calls for solidarity with “inspirational” Kurdish administration.
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Italian academic Dr Federico Venturini has called for solidarity with the Kurdish administration in northern Syria, condemning Turkey for its support of “extremists, jihadists and terrorists”.
Venturini is a research associate at the University of Udine in Italy, and a member of the Transnational Institute of Social Ecology. He was part of the 2016 International Peace Delegation to Turkey’s Imrali Prison, and is co-editor of the book, Your Freedom and Mine: Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish Question in Erdoğan’s Turkey.
In an interview with Erem Kansoy of MedyaNews, Venturini spoke of the territorial gains being made by the jihadist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the rebel Syrian National Army (SNA – not to be confused with the Syrian Armed Forces of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, who is believed to have fled the country). He condemned the “terrorist attacks against civilians and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria [AANES]”, which he called “a beacon of hope in the Middle East”.
Venturini said it was unacceptable that civilians have been prevented from fleeing the conflict, and called for all governments and societies to “push the Turkish government to stop support[ing] the extremists, jihadists and terrorists” (referring to HTS and the SNA) that are “targeting the Kurds and all the different minorities in Syria”.
“The Kurds are really an inspiration and we really need to stand in solidarity with them in these very hard times,” he concluded.
