Turkish & Syrian ambassadors clash at UNSC meeting over attacks

Ambassors of Turkey and Syria clashed in ir first meeting at United Nations Security Council on October 24. clash comes as Turkey launched its military action in Syria after Donald Trump pulled out American forces. Turkey's ambassor, Feridun Sinirlioglu, called Turkish military stance a finite operation to counter-terrorism in order to put an end to terror threat alongside border y share with Syria. He furr ded ir aim was also to respect and enforce Syria's territorial integrity and unity.

A series of arguments between Turkey and Syria

Bashar Ja'afari, Syria's ambassor told United Nations council members that Syria is completely against Turkey's cross-border offensive and condemns justification given by Turkey to justify actions y term as "counter-terrorism" measures. 

In response to this, Feridun completely rebuffed his Syrian counterpart's attempt to call Turkey's counter-terrorism measures as something offensive. Turkish ambassor furr ded that Operation Peace Spring was limited in nature.

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Bashar countered Turkey by accusing m of t hering to rules of International Law, such as United Nations Charter and resolutions and called Turkey's response as a complete lie. He furr ded that attacks in Syria led to a lot of people losing ir lives and hundreds of people suffering injuries and numerous ors who were rendered homeless. 

Ja'afari stated that many European council members berated Turkey for ir military actions in Syria. However, he accused Europeans of creating present situation.

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Russia-Turkey ceasefire agreement

Russian ambassor, Vassily Nebenzia, stated that Russia-Turkey ceasefire agreement will play a very important role in rmalizing situation in Syria. He furr assured Russia's help to Syria and Kurds as y seek to table dialogue on se issues. In dition to this, Vassily said that Syria's allies, Russia and Iran alongside Turkey are planning to reach a comprehensive settlement to end conflict in Syria.

"Terrorists"

Turkey views Kurdish fighters in rastern part of Syria, who also fought alongside American troops to eliminate extremist group ISIS, as "terrorists" because of ir connections to Kurdistan Workers Party which is responsible for a 35-year long war against Turkish state. 

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(With inputs from ncies)