La carta, firmada por 90 académicos, dice:

“Escribimos en relación a la decisión del presidente Trump de retirar las tropas estadounidenses de Siria, lo que ha provocado una invasión militar ilegal por parte de Turquía del nordeste de Siria. Esta invasión ya ha provocado un desplazamiento masivo de civiles, y amenaza con llevar a cabo una limpieza étnica y genocidio de los kurdos, sin mencionar el resurgimiento del ISIS”.

La carta continúa:

“La comunidad internacional tiene una deuda con las Fuerzas Democráticas Sirias por su sacrificio para detener y derrotar al ISIS estableciendo la paz y la estabilidad en la región. Han perdido a más de 11.000 hombres y mujeres en la lucha contra el ISIS, y han desempeñado un papel fundamental sobre el terreno en esta lucha. Sus esfuerzos llevaron a la liberación de millones de personas que se encontraban bajo la tiranía del ISIS. Además, en todos los sitios donde han ganado, han establecido un sistema de gobierno ‘confederal democrático’ que es notable, incluso inspirador, por su compromiso con la liberación de las mujeres, así como por su convivencia multiétnica y multirreligiosa. En resumen, son nuestras amigos y aliados”.

La carta añade:

“Esta nueva escalada, inmediatamente después de la decisión del presidente Trump de abandonar a los aliados kurdos, constituye otra agresión ilegal contra los derechos humanos, que ya ha causado cientos de muertes y ha provocado el desplazamiento de más de 100.000 personas, al tiempo que amenaza con una limpieza étnica e, incluso, el genocidio”.

Los académicos piden al gobierno del Reino Unido que “condene inmediatamente la invasión de Turquía”. Asimismo, piden también un “boicot a todos los productos turcos y el turismo a Turquía” y “un retorno inmediato a las conversaciones de paz entre el estado turco y el PKK; y con ese fin, pedimos la libertad del líder kurdo encarcelado Abdullah Öcalan”.

Los académicos también enumeraron una serie de demandas:

“Exigimos que el gobierno del Reino Unido tome medidas para detener esta invasión ilegal de Turquía en el nordeste de Siria.

Exigimos una retirada inmediata de todas las tropas turcas del suelo sirio. Pedimos el fin de todas las ventas de armas a Turquía”.

Los abajo firmantes:

Dr.Thomas Jeffrey Miley, Lecturer of Political Sociology, University of Cambridge

Dr. Les Levidow, Senior Research Fellow, Open University

Dr. Radha D’Souza, Westminster Law School, University of Westminster

Dr. Isabel Kaser, SOAS and University of Bern

Dr.Derek Wall, Dept of Politics and IR, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Dr. Camilla Power, Senior Lecturer, University of East London

Dr. Chris Knight, Senior Research Fellow, University College London

Dr. Thomas Phillips, Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moore's University

Dr. Amber Huff, Research Fellow, Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex

Dr. Patrick Huff, Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London

Dr. Mark Bason, Research Fellow, University of Sussex

Dr Sarah Glynn, academic and writer

Dr. Angelica de Freitas e Silva, Senior Lecturer in Construction Law - School of Applied Management, University of Westminster

Dr Vivian L Vignoles, Reader in Social Psychology, University of Sussex.

John Drury, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Sussex

Dr Simon Williams, Sussex Centre for Language Studies, University of Sussex

Prof. Anna Stavrianakis, Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex

Dr Robert Rosenthal, Senior Teaching Fellow, Director of Teaching & Learning
School of Education and Social Work

Helen Dixon, Lecturer and Research Associate, IDS-Global Studies, University of Sussex

Dr David Davies, School of Law Politics and Sociology, University of Sussex

Prof Clifford Stott, Dean for research, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Keele University

Dr Fergus Neville, Lecturer, University of St Andrews

Tommaso Ciarli, Senior Research Fellow, University of Sussex

Shirley May, Data Manager, SHORE-C, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex

Dr Catherine Will, School of Law, Politics and Sociology, University of Sussex

Dr Kamran Matin, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Sussex University

Nuno Ferreira, Professor of Law, University of Sussex

Luke Martell, University of Sussex

Jim Endersby, Professor of the History of Science, School of History, Art History and Philosophy, University of Sussex

Dr Naureen Durrani, Associate (Education), University of Sussex

Dr Kate Howland, Senior Lecturer, University of Sussex

Dr Eleanor Careless, University of Sussex

Professor Janet Boddy. Professor of Child, Youth and Family Studies,
University of Sussex

Gordon Asher, Independent Scholar, Scotland

Professor Stephen Linstead, FAcSS, University of York

Prof. Haim Yacobi, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit  University College London

Leon Rosa Reichle, PhD student, Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA),

De Montfort University

Sarah Jasmon, Manchester Metropolitan University

Phil O'keefe, University of Northumbria

Professor Mike Geddes, Associate, University of Warwick

William A. Scarfone, Postgraduate Researcher, Centre for Research Architecture,
Goldsmiths University

Prof Nicola Ansell, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Brunell University, London

Dr Thomas Dekeyser, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for the GeoHumanities, Royal Holloway, University of London

Prof. Gavin Brown, Professor of Political Geography and Sexualities, University of Leicester

Dr Panayiota Demetriou, Bath Spa University

Dr Ersilia Verlinghieri, Research Associate, University of Oxford

Dr Adam Fishwick, Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, People and Place,

De Montfotd University

Dr Nick Clare, Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham

Dr Carl Bonner-Thompson , Lecturer, School of Geography and the Environment

University of Oxford

Dr Marijn Nieuwenhuis, Durham University, Geography Department

Nina Isabella Moeller, Associate Professor, Centre for Agroecology, 
Water and Resilience, Coventry University

Professor David Whyte, University of Liverpool

Dr Victoria Cooper, Open University

Dr Michelle Farrell, Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool

Dr Gary Wilson, Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University

Dr Yinan Yin, Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University

Dr Karen Evans, University of Liverpool

Dr Aoife Daly, Senior Lecturer, University of Liverpool

Dr Rossella Pulvirenti, Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University

Dr Julia Bradshaw, Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University

Dr. Lina Dencik, Reader, Cardiff University

Prof. Bart Cammaerts, Professor of Politics and Communication, London School of Economics

Dr. Hannah Hamad, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication, Cardiff University

Prof. Des Freedman, Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London

Prof. Natalie Fenton, Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London

Dr. Mike Berry, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University

Dr. Alex J. Wood, Lecturer in the Sociology of Work, University of Birmingham

Prof. Mark Graham, Professor, University of Oxford

Dr. Andy Williams, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University

Dr. Alex Prichard, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter

Dr. Peter Wilkin, Reader in Social and Political Science, Brunel University

Dr. Torsten Geelan, Lecturer in the Sociology of Work and Employment, University of Leicester

Dr. Waseem Yaqoob, Lecturer in History, Queen Mary University of London

Prof. Sarah B. Franklin, Sociology Professor and ReproSoc Research Director, University of Cambridge

Dr. Brendan Burchell, Reader in Sociology, University of Cambridge

Dr. Monica G. Moreno Figueroa, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Cambridge

Dr. David Lane, Emeritus Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Dr. Ruth Armstrong, Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge

Dr. Maria Iacovou, University of Cambridge

Dr. Manali Desai, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge

Prof. Christel Lane, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge

Dr. Arsalan Ghani, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Dr. Johanna Riha, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health