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In a recent report, the Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities has found the trustees appointed by the AKP government to replace the elected HDP co-mayors to be “against the international law”.

France’s FM Jean-Yves Le Drian has told BFM TV Channel that international law “is being violated by Turkey, by the Damascus regime, by Iran and those who are attacking eastern Ghouta and Idlib.”

Turkish air force jets forced a Syrian passenger plane en route from Moscow to land while it was bound for Damascus over Turkish air space on Oct. 11. Turkish officials also ordered another Armenian passenger plane bound for Aleppo to land in the northeastern province of Erzurum today. Such moves are legal but hostile acts that are not in conformity with regular aviatian practices, according to Assistant Prof. Volkan Günel.