Thursday, 29 April 2021_The Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU) has denounced in the strongest terms Turkish forces for depriving more than one million people in Syria’s Hasakah of drinking water by cutting off supplies to the local population.
In a statement on Thursday, the AIPU appealed to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and international community "to intervene immediately in order to stop Turkish military forces and allied militants from cutting off water supply in Hasakah."
Turkish forces and their mercenaries have "deliberately and repeatedly" cut off drinking water to Hasakah and its vicinity in recent months, the statement said.
The union expressed serious concerns over the situation amid scorching weather conditions and the coronavirus pandemic, hoping that the world body would use all means to halt the ongoing tragedy in Hasakah.
The AIPU called for all forms of pressure to be exerted on the Turkish forces to immediately allow the flow of drinking water to the area.
Elsewhere in the statement, the union underscored its complete support for Syria in defending its “sovereignty and nation”.
The AIPU is an organization composed of parliamentary groups representing Arab parliaments. It was established in the wake of the 1973 Arab–Israeli War to encourage Arab cooperation through political, professional and other institutions. The union is based in the Jordanian capital city of Amman.
Last August, Syria's permanent representative to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari warned that Turkish forces were using water as a weapon against local residents, saying that the troops in control of Allouk water station had cut off water supply to Hasakah and its countryside more than 15 times over the past few days.
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