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A delegation from Catalonia met with Rojava officials in Qamishli on June 22, 2021. Photo: Rojava's Department of Foreign Affairs
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — A Catalonian delegation met with officials in the Kurdish-held areas of northeast Syria, also known as Rojava, on Tuesday to discuss a range of issues, including Turkish interventions in the region.
Rojava’s foreign affairs department said that the delegation was received by the co-chairs of the department, Abdulkarim Omar, Dania Ramadan, and other members. The two sides discussed relations between Catalonia and Rojava’s administration.
The delegation included activist Eulia Reguant, Ruben Wagensberg, a member of the Catalan Parliament, and Laura Perez Castano, the deputy mayor of Barcelona.
They also discussed the violations of the "Turkish invasion," saying that Turkey has a project to bring a demographic change in the region.
"The occupation commits various violations in Afrin, Sari Kani in al-Hasakah and Gire Spi in Raqqa governorate, including killing, torture, rape and forced displacement… the Turkish project is to make demographic change in the occupied areas and build settlements there,” Omar said.
Turkey occupies parts of northeast and northwest Syria, after invasions in 2018 and 2019. Thousands of civilians were displaced in the offensives, named Operation Olive Branch and Operation Peace Spring respectively.
Omar also called for the opening of the al Yarubiyah border crossing, which connects the region with Iraq’s Nineveh province, to provide humanitarian aid for civilians.
On Sunday, the Catalonian delegation met with Kurdish officials in Erbil, discussing bolstering bilateral relations and aspirations for independence on both sides.
They met with Erbil governor Omed Khoshnaw and the Kurdistan Parliament’s deputy speaker Hemin Hawrami.
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