Afrinpost-Special
Farmers in the Kurdish region of Afrin suffer from high fuel prices, especially after the Turkish invasion of areas in the east of the Euphrates, within the so-called “spring of peace”, where the price of a barrel of diesel oil is up to 104 thousand pounds, because of the interruption of the international road as well as royalties imposed by barriers The occupation militia on fuel trucks before entering Afrin.
The high fuel prices, in turn, led to the high prices of olive trees cultivation to about 375 Syrian pounds, note that it was in the era of self-management at nearly 60 pounds.Thus, the high rise reflects one of the aspects of economic decline reached by the indigenous Afrin Kurds, by virtue of the Turkish occupation policies aimed at bringing people to their knees by humiliating their livelihoods and preventing their livelihoods.
The Turkish occupation militants from Islamic militias use agricultural tractors for forced labor, which is carried out free of charge in agriculture and transporting firewood.
“Al-Majd Legion ” In the villages of Amara and Shekhotka, forces tractor owners to cultivate land for free by “Al-Nukhba army”.
During the current and previous season, Islamic militias seized farmland, olive groves, and all other seasons belonging to forcibly displaced people from the Kurdish-occupied Afrin region and occupied their settlers as laborers.
Since the occupation of Afrin, the Islamic militias, under the supervision of the Turkish occupation, have divided the villages of Afrin and its subdivisions into sectors, where a specific militia has been stationed in each sector, and has monopolized itself to rob the property of displaced Kurds, seize their homes and livelihoods and distribute them to settlers with armed men.
Afrinpost announced in March 2019 that the losses of the olive season for the 2018 season amounted to more than 109 million euros, as a result of widespread theft by the Turkish occupation and its Islamic militias and settlers formed mostly from the families of these militants.
With the start of the olive season in 2019, the settlers, accompanied by armed militias of the occupation banditry, to olive groves in various villages, especially in the area of “ Bulbula / Bulbul ”, and they stole olives and sold large quantities of them for their own benefit.
