THE Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU) called on the international community to intervene immediately to end a “humanitarian catastrophe” on Saturday as it condemned Turkey for cutting off water in Syria’s Hasaka province.

Its president Saqr Ghobash said the body expressed “deep concern over the repeated aggressive Turkish practices against the brotherly Syrian people … especially the repeated practices of cutting off drinking water in Hasaka province and its villages.”

He slammed Turkey’s “inhumane acts,” which have left one million people without access to healthy drinking water, saying it would have catastrophic health consequences.