Afrinpost-BBC
In a lengthy report presented by the British website on Tuesday, a Kurdish woman denied Turkish allegations about the administration of Afrin or even the rest of the occupied areas in northern Syria by Islamic militants and local councils affiliated to the entire Muslim Brotherhood.
Ceyhan, 62, who was the headmaster of a middle school in Afrin, quit her job and turned to “paying attention to the olive fields that are constantly looted by pro-Turkish factions and their families,” especially after her husband’s death last July, describing the situation in which she lives. The Kurds in Afrin and its villages are in despair and oppression, saying: “The workers behave as if they are the owners of the land.
She adds: “But the truth I know as everyone knows, that the parties concerned are looting, kidnapping, killing and extorting, and the Turks are aware of all this, but they turn a blind eye to their crimes in order to push us to move from our homes and lands, as did tens of thousands of Kurds in Afrin.” She speaking and understand Turkish language well and understands what is going on around her. “Everything here is under the direction and supervision of Turkish officials who take orders from the center in both the Turkish states of Hatay (Iskenderun) and Kilis.
“Our official personal identities are not recognized. They must be issued by Hatay. They have also made changes in the curriculum of nationalism and history. Turkish flags and pictures of Erdogan in all schools and public institutions have been replaced. Even Syrian public holidays have been replaced by Turkish. The Turkish Republic became an official holiday, and Syrian holidays such as Teacher’s Day and Mother’s Day were canceled. ”
“They are forcing us to sell them olives at the lowest price, and then the Turkish government comes to buy tons of olive oil and sell them in Turkey and even export them out of Turkey by tens of times.”
The Turkish occupation follows the Kurdish region of Afrin administratively in the states of Hatay and Kilis, and political detainees and those who deal with former self-government institutions are imprisoned in the center in Ankara and not in Afrin. This is what happened with the father of Amira Hassan, who lives in Manchester, UK, who told the BBC. Her 70-year-old father has been imprisoned in Ankara for more than a year because he was collaborating with former Self-Administration institutions in Afrin.
