{"id":3339,"date":"2018-01-22T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2018-01-22T14:44:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T14:44:40","slug":"sean-crowe-td-condemns-turkish-attack-on-afrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/sean-crowe-td-condemns-turkish-attack-on-afrin\/","title":{"rendered":"Se\u00e1n Crowe TD condemns Turkish attack on Afrin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has condemned Turkey\u2019s ground offensive and invasion of Syria, and its attacks on Afrin in north-western Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTurkey\u2019s military attacks on Afrin, which will cause huge civilian casualties, are wrong and I condemn them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have already seen the human rights violations that the Turkish army have committed against Kurds in south-east Turkey and it is clear their brutal tactics will be replicated in Afrin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Kurdish People&#8217;s Protection Units (YPG) have been successfully fighting Da\u2019esh in this region. Turkey\u2019s attacks will hamper the fight against Da\u2019esh, which is not completely surprising given the many questions surrounding Turkey\u2019s covert support for radical jihadist groups in the region.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has condemned Turkey\u2019s ground offensive and invasion of Syria, and its attacks on Afrin in north-western Syria. Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said: \u201cTurkey\u2019s military attacks on Afrin, which will cause huge civilian casualties, are wrong and I condemn them. \u201cWe have already seen the human rights violations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,41,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kurds","category-syria","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}