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In a lengthy report presented by the British website on Tuesday, a journalist talked about the Turkish operations in the Kurdish-occupied Afrin province by militants of Islamic militias of the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood.
According to a journalist who follows the situation in Afrin and the areas occupied by the Turkish army and its armed men: “There is no problem for the factions to replace the names of schools named after the martyrs and pioneers of Syria with Turkish and Ottoman names in order to please Turkey. For example, a park in Azaz city’s name was changed to (Ottoman Nation Park), and angered some jealous locals on the country, so they deleted the word Ottoman from the entrance, which aroused the ire of the factions.
Nugin, a mother of two in Afrin, says: “Turkish hegemony over northern Syria encompasses all aspects of life. The administrative appointments that take place in and around Afrin come from the central authority in Turkey, be it in administration, education or even public speeches.”
She adds: “Schools, hospitals, crossings and military institutions are all decorated with the Turkish flag and sometimes beside the opposition flag, we are in Afrin as living under the Ottoman state of the many slogans that glorify Turkey.”
Since the beginning of the Turkish occupation of the Kurdish region of Afrin in March 2018, the occupation authorities have granted identity cards intended for foreigners, to the local population in Afrin, and in theory, Turkish identity cards have made the original Afrin residents refugees within their territory.
“Turkey started to open Afrin schools, teach Turkish students and help run hospitals. There are signs in Turkish, a Turkish-trained police force and a Turkish post office.” The occupation authorities removed the old hospital sign and placed a new one and changed the name of the hospital to Afrin. Turkish language.
After tightening its occupation of Afrin, Turkey began changing the region’s demography by replacing the indigenous Kurdish population with others brought with the militants from areas regained by the Syrian regime after the expulsion of Islamist militias loyal to the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Turkish occupation also claimed to have Ottoman documents to justify its control over the cities of Jarablus and Manbij in the province of Aleppo, citing the existence of cemeteries belonging to Ottoman leaders in other areas in northern Syria, to extend its influence over them.
From Idlib to Afrin in Aleppo, the Turkish ambitions to control more Syrian territory did not stop, under the pretext of confronting the SDF forces. Turkish.
Ankara, for example, has built a power grid in the city of Jarablus, where Erdogan’s image was hung on a wall at its main Ankara-backed hospital, according to an AFP report last October, while the post office there is only allowed to use the Turkish lira, which has fallen to a minimum. Rates against the dollar in recent months, resulting in higher prices for imported materials from Turkey.
The Turkish occupation also promoted the opening of Gaziantep University to three colleges in towns located in that region, according to Reuters quoted the Turkish Gazette last October, adding that the university will open a college for Islamic sciences in Azaz, Syria, another for education in Afrin, and a third for economics and management sciences. In the door.
