{"id":41346,"date":"2019-10-26T23:22:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T23:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41346"},"modified":"2019-10-26T23:22:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T23:22:17","slug":"brazils-bolsonaro-arrives-in-uae-for-first-arab-world-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41346","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#8217;s Bolsonaro arrives in UAE for first Arab world visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"52\">\n<p>\nZURICH: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan should be investigated and indicted for war crimes over his country\u2019s military offensive in Syria, former prosecutor and UN investigator Carla del Ponte said in an interview published on Saturday.<br \/>Del Ponte, a former member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, said Turkey\u2019s intervention had broken international law and had reignited the conflict in Syria.<br \/>Ankara says its incursion \u2014 launched after US troops withdrew from the Syrian-Turkish border area \u2014 solely targeted the Kurdish YPG militia, which it regards as terrorists linked to Kurdish insurgents operating in southeast Turkey.<br \/>\u201cFor Erdogan to be able to invade Syrian territory to destroy the Kurds is unbelievable,\u201d said del Ponte, a former Swiss attorney general who prosecuted war crimes in Rwanda and former Yugoslavia.<br \/>\u201cAn investigation should be opened into him and he should be charged with war crimes. He should not be allowed to get away with this scot free,\u201d she told the Swiss newspaper Schweiz am Wochenende in an interview.<br \/>Ankara halted its military offensive last week under a US-brokered cease-fire. Erdogan then negotiated an accord with Russian President Vladimir Putin whereby Syrian border guards and Russian military police began clearing the YPG from within 30 km (19 miles) of the Syrian-Turkish frontier.<br \/>From Tuesday Russian and Turkish forces will start to patrol a narrower, 10-km strip of land in northeast Syria where US troops had been deployed for years alongside their former Kurdish allies.<br \/>Turkey\u2019s NATO allies, including the United States, have criticized its military incursion in northeast Syria, fearing it will undermine the fight against Daesh militants.<br \/>But del Ponte said European nations were reluctant to confront Turkey over its actions after Erdogan threatened to \u201copen the gates\u201d for refugees to head to Europe.<br \/>\u201cErdogan has the refugees as a bargaining chip,\u201d she said.<br \/>Del Ponte joined the three-member Syria inquiry in September 2012, chronicling incidents such as chemical weapons attacks, a genocide against Iraq\u2019s Yazidi population, siege tactics, and the bombing of aid convoys.<br \/>She quit in 2017, saying a lack of political backing from the UN Security Council made the job impossible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZURICH: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan should be investigated and indicted for war crimes over his country\u2019s military offensive in Syria, former prosecutor and UN investigator Carla del Ponte said in an interview published on Saturday.Del Ponte, a former member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, said Turkey\u2019s intervention had broken international law and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}