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Several Swedish MPs have accused the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan genocide, crimes against humanity and violating the rules of warfare. On Tuesday, July 11, The Local reports.
As the newspaper notes, such a charge of the Swedish parliamentarians for the first time put forward against the Turkish leader. According to five lawmakers from the left and green parties, all these crimes were committed mostly in the Kurdish populated areas of Turkey.
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The application became possible thanks to accepted in 2014, the law: its provisions, “every person who with the purpose to partially or completely destroy a group of people’s nationality or ethnicity is guilty of genocide”. International Swedish prosecution authority noted that the gathering of evidence and the examination of the appeal will take some time.
Carl Slicer, MP from the green party, expressed the hope that parliamentarians from other European countries will follow the example of their Swedish colleagues.
An armed confrontation between Ankara and the Kurds, who are fighting for education autonomy within the country escalated in the summer of 2015 after the attack in the town of Suruç. Then 32 people were killed, mostly Kurds. Fighters of the Kurdistan workers party, which Ankara considers a terrorist organization, accused the Turkish government of collaborating with the Islamists and resumed guerrilla war against Turkish security forces.