Afrinpost
Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, has admitted stealing Turkish olive oil from the occupied Kurdish region of Afrin, exporting and selling it to the world.
In his speech to parliament, Gavishoglu said that the Turkish government sells and exports olive oil stolen by the armed Islamic militias of his occupying army from Afrin.
Gavishoglu faced criticism from opposition members who protested, saying the proceeds from the sale of olive oil were used by the Turkish government to provide services in Afrin.
Afrin has the second place in the production of olive oil in Syria, where the number of olive trees about / 18 / million trees, and is a major source of income for most of its population.
Islamic militias seize agricultural land, olive groves and all other seasons belonging to forcibly displaced people from the Kurdish-occupied Afrin region and employ their settlers as laborers.
At the beginning of the olive season, the settlers, accompanied by armed thieves, invaded the olive groves in different villages in Afrin countryside and stole olives and sold large quantities of them for their own benefit.
Since the occupation of Afrin, the Islamic militias, under the supervision of the Turkish occupation, have divided the villages and districts of Afrin into sectors, where a specific militia is stationed in each sector, and monopolize itself to rob the property of displaced Kurds, and seize their homes and livelihoods and distributed to settlers with armed men.
The 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 the theft of the Turkish occupation and its Islamic militias and settlers formed mostly from the families of these militants.
The gunmen sell stolen olives to the Turkish occupation entity, where the Anatolian Agency of the Turkish regime had previously published an implicit acknowledgment of the theft of olives and oil from the Kurdish-occupied Afrin region by announcing an increase in the country’s exports of green olives in the period following the occupation of Afrin.
The Turkish agency said that exports of green olives intended for eating / table olives, rose between October 2018 and March 2019, that is, the period during which the harvesting of olives in the province of Afrin.
This came in a brochure published by the Turkish Agency, which said that the export of green olives from Turkey amounted to more than 35 thousand tons during the period from November 2018 to March 2018, while rising after the occupation of Afrin to more than 51 thousand tons.
The financial revenues earned by the Turkish occupation amounted to more than $ 10 million, which previously earned about $ 70 million, and later to make about $ 80 million (as it admits only), an increase related to green olives only without oil.
