A group of civil rights activists, law experts, and lawyers have issued a statement on 21 April, condemning the recent military aggression of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
The statement said that by “invading” the region, Turkey violated the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Iraq and committed a “crime of aggression”.
“We call on governments and international bodies, and in particular the United Nations Security Council, as the primary watchdog of international peace and security, to condemn this act of aggression and to take a pragmatic approach to end this widespread and blatant military aggression”, the statement said.
List of signatories:
1- Abbas Abdi
2- Mohammad Saleh Nikbakht
3- Dr Sattar Azizi
4- Mosleh Ghorbani
5- Esfandiar Abnous
6- Mojtaba Goli
7- Azad Eshraghi
8- Dr Ghotbaddin Sadeghi
9- Masoud Shamsnezhad
10- Aziz Karimi
11- Seyyed Morad Mousavi
12- Farman Jafari
13- Abdollah Jahanbin
14- Esmaeil Rahimi
15- Foad Motavassel
16- Seyyed Mohammad Reza Faghihi
17- Mostafa Beigi (Rodos Fayli)
18- Hojjatollah Moradi
19-Yousef Taale
20- Alireza Abdollahzadeh
21- Sanjar Fakhri
22- Dr Bayazid Mardoukhi
23- Yasin Mirzaei Kalhor
24- Ebrahim Azizi
25- Ali Shams Borhan
26- Pedram Ansari
27- Nariman Soleimani
28- Mansour Salehi
29- Hossein Shah-Oveisi
30- Dr Sadegh Zibakalam
31- Kamel Khalili
32- Jamal Taha
33- Rufia Ayatolnabi
34- Ali Saki
35- Ali Fathi
36- Hamzeh Karimi
37- Sajjad Hosseini
38- Reza Karimi
39- Mohammad Heidari
40- Farhad Fathi
41- Majid Karimi
42- Sirous Babaei
43- Mostafa Jalili
44- Faramarz Khosravi
45- Abdollah Sedghi
46- Ebrahim Rafatian
47- Arman Dehghani
48- Saeid Zahedian
49- Sadegh Mohammadian
50- Adnan Hassanpour
51- Rahman Ahmadi
52- Somayyeh Rahimi
53- Adnan Hosseini
54- Zaher Nik-Ravesh
55- Khosrow Forouhar
56- Iraj Ghaderi
57- Mohammad Farahmand
58- Kamal Kohneh-Poushi
59- Reza Razmjoui
60- Hossein Zahedi
61- Reza Amini
62- Mehdi Abbasi
63- Vahid Motaei
64- Omid Motaei
65- Iman Movassagh
66- Hassan Morad Kakaei
67- Hossein Veisi
68- Yousef Zamani
69- Farzad Ruhollahi
70- Asghar Sotoudeh
71- Behrouz Yar-Mohammadi
72- Payam Javidi
73- Vahid Houshyar
74- Rasoul Mohammadi
75- Mohsen Jalilian
76- Ebrahim Sheikh-Veisi
77- Kamal Piri
78- Younes Khezri
79- Parsa Ahangari
80- Shorash Mohammad-Beigi
81- Somayyeh Hashemi
82- Ala Mahmoudi
83- Yasin Mir-Azizi
84- Khalil Abbasian
85- Maryam Rahimi
86- Davoud Esmaeili
87- Parviz Mohammadi
89- Soleiman Yar-Ahmadi
90- Rahman Eskandari
91- Meysam Hemmati
92- Bahram Ghorbani
93- Osman Mozayyan
94- Dr Fereydoun Nouri
95- Homayoun Amini
96- Leyli Hassanpour
97- Mansour Teyfouri
98- Hossein Alavi
99- Abdolrahman Mahmoudi
100- Farideh Ahmadi
101- Azadeh Vafaei
102- Azad Abdi