Statement of the United for Palestine campaign in Cyprus regarding the fact that the turkish regime helps Israel fuel its genocidal war machine
Stop fuelling genocide
Israel receives around 30% of its oil from Azerbaijan via the BTC pipeline, which it has been using to power its war machine enacting a genocide in Gaza, that is being expanded into Lebanon. The oil fields and pipeline are majority owned by BP, and the second largest shareholder is SOCAR – the Azerbaijani national oil company. At the final stop of the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, the oil is shipped from Turkey to Israel.
Energy Embargo for Palestine, Filistin İçin Bin Genç and Global Energy Embargo for Palestine are issuing a call to action to groups around the world to act and apply pressure on the actors complicit in fuelling the Israeli genocide via the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline.
United for Palestine supports the campaign and is calling for actions on the International Days of action Monday 11th of November, outside of the Turkish Embassy and 16th of November outside of BP Headquarters in Nicosia.
Between the 11th and the 22nd of November the COP29 conference will take place in Baku, Azerbaijan. COP29 is the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place every year where, supposedly the world comes together to agree on the actions to address the climate crisis, such as limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, helping vulnerable communities adapt to the effects of climate change, and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
Critics have nicknamed this as “BP’s COP” due to the involvement of BP and SOCAR in delivering this COP. Azerbaijan’s Energy minister, Mukhtar Babyev, who was formerly the Vice-President of Ecology at SOCAR and has spent 26 years working in SOCAR, has been announced as the president for COP-29. Additionally, Tony Blair, who was involved in lobbying for the BTC oil pipeline in Azerbaijan and BP’s operations in Iraq following his invasion, has sought to assist in running the climate summit.
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Video from the protest at the turkish consulate in Manchester
