Afrinpost – Special
Within the framework of the extensive settlement operations that the Turkish occupation is seeking within the Kurdish regions in northern Syria in general and the occupied Afrin region in particular, the militants of the Islamic militias affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in the Russian military attack on Idlib found a justification for re-filling Afrin with the settlers.
During the past period, and with the number of settlers heading to the newly occupied areas in the east of the Euphrates within the border strip that extends between the cities of “Sere Kaniye / Ras al-Ain” and “Gire Spi / Tel Abyad”, the population of settlers decreased in the villages of the occupied Kurdish region of Afrin.
As a result of the absence of Syrian refugees in Turkey wishing to return to the east of the Euphrates, where they are forced to do so, it appears that the occupation has had no choice but to coordinate with Russia, to wage the last war in Idlib, to displace the residents of the latter and thereby prepare for the settlement of between one million to three million of those in Idlib, in Afrin, Sere Kaniye and Gire Spi.
In this context, Afrinpost correspondents emphasized that the Islamic militia forces the elderly who live alone in their homes, after their children deserted them forcibly because of the Turkish invasion, and as a result of their fear of the torture and kidnappings that affected all the returnees of the indigenous population of Afrin, forcing them emptying these homes and housing with their relatives, on the pretext of receiving families leaving Idlib.
Correspondents also confirmed that the matter applies to Kurdish citizens who live in the homes of displaced relatives, even if they hold proxy bonds, as Islamic militia forces Kurdish families out of the homes of their relatives, under the pretext of housing families leaving Idlib.
Kurdish citizens denounced the way in which the settler invites the people of Idlib to come to Afrin and live in it, questioning the right of the settlers to invite others to come and settle in Afrin, while these were tools for the Turkish occupation in the largest demographic change project during the modern era, when more than 500 thousands were displaced of Kurdish citizens from Afrin, in front of the entire world, to resettle strangers from the countryside of Damascus, Homs, Hama, Idlib, and Deir Al-Zour instead.
