The organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has received 30,000 euros from Turkish government on October 17 and ahead of alleged chemical attacks by Turkey’s army and its proxies against the Syrian Kurds.
OPCW has published the news on the Turkish fund on its official website and expressed its “gratitude to the government of Turkey for its support.”
Earlier, Kurdish leaders in Syria have warned against the use of banned weapons by Turkish army and its jihadist proxies and provided footages of civilian targets including children suffering from “odd wounds”.
According to a report by The Guardian on Friday, “A British chemical weapons expert sent photographs from a former colleague of a child with a badly burned torso in a frontline hospital said he thought it was likely they showed chemical burns.”
In the same report, The Guardian quoted Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a former commander of the UK’s chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear regiment who said: “The most likely culprit is white phosphorus. It is a horrific weapon, and has been used repeatedly during the Syrian civil war; unfortunately its use has become increasingly normalized.”
Friday morning on October 18 and a day after Turkey’s financial contribution to OPCW, the organization said that “it was aware of the situation and is collecting information with regard to possible use of chemical weapons.”
The Kurds are now worry that Turkey paid the money as a bribe to the 2013 Noble Peace Prize winner organization of OPCW ahead of its attacks against the Kurdish people in Syria.
“We have real concerns over OPCW’s reliability and accountability after we figured out that Turkey paid such a huge amount of money just ahead of its chemical attacks in Rojava,” the Kurdish forces wrote on their social media outlets.
