The Syrian Women's Council held a press conference to expose the inhuman practices the invading Turkish state is carrying out in Afrin.

The statement pointed out Turkey's ‘Turkification' policies in the invaded areas which aims to change the demographical structure. In that sense, it is stated that Turkish state has located its mercenary groups from Damascus, Eastern Ghuta, Homs and Hama in Afrin.
In the report it is underlined also that most violence is directed against women: so far at least 119 women have been kidnapped and women have also been subjected to rape and harassment.

The report detailed the abuses committed by the Turkish government and its mercenary allied groups as follows: ethnic repression, massacre, women's rights abuse, torture, assassination, attacks on martyrs' funerals, unlawful trials, looting and extortion, burning books and historical documents, destruction and bombing of religious temples, abduction and slaughter of civilians, kidnapping, bombardment of cemeteries, the bombing of Heyva Sor Center and Avrîn Hospital, bombing of Meydankê dam as well as electricity and water production facilities, bombing of mills and ovens, use of forbidden weapons, bombing of civilian convoys and use of civilians as live shields.{divide}

After presenting the report, The Syrian Women's Council made the following calls:

1) We call on the international organizations, institutions and civil society to stop their silence on what is happening in Syria and to fulfill their responsibilities. Once again Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the violations of the peoples of Syria rights, beginning with Afrin, should be brought to the international court and tried as a war criminal, for the role he played in the Syrian war. Turkey's occupation army should leave Syrian territories.
2) Military operations against civilians in Afrin, carried out by Turkey and mercenary groups must be condemned.
3) Legal and civil institutions in Syria should work together to document Turkey's human rights violations and war crimes in Afrin. 
4) Conditions must be created for the return of hundreds of thousands of people forcibly displaced from Afrin, and the confiscation and looting of property must be prevented. In addition, mines placed by the Turkish state in Afrin and surrounding villages should be removed as soon as possible.
5) Relevant international institutions and organizations should quickly provide to the basic vital, economic and human needs of the people of Afrin.
6) In order to counter the nationalist attacks by the occupiers aimed at carrying out an ethnic genocide, legal work should be done. The people should be guaranteed that they will not face such attacks again. The ongoing demographic change in the region should be stopped.