Afrinpost
Kurdish media and party sources said that the “Batal” forest, which is 1 km long, is located between the villages of “Miska Fawqani” in the east and “Chubana” in the west in Jenderes district, and its area is estimated at 30 thousand square meters, and was covered with trees of The conifers, oaks, and perennials of them, have disappeared !
The activists pointed out that since the Turkish invasion and the establishment of the Turkish army by a military base near it, a section of the forest was washed away, and a tower and a base for the cellular communications network “Syriatel” were removed from it. The road to Mount Habiba, which passes through the forest, especially since during the past two years, the logging of the forest has been completely completed.
Deforestation, forestry and olive trees are carried out by armed militias on a large scale in the occupied Kurdish Afrin region, for the purpose of logging and charcoal manufacturing, under the eyes of the Turkish intelligence and army, as the centers of coal industry, firewood collection and trade are spread, without anyone being held accountable for that crime that occurs Right to the environment and the property of the people.
The occupied Kurdish region witnesses daily logging of forests and olive trees by Islamic militia militants and their settlers, and the Afrin Post correspondents indicated in previous times, that the occupation militias cut down the forest trees as well as the olive trees belonging to the Afrin Diaspora, and collect firewood In centers on the outskirts of villages, with the aim of selling and exporting the rest to Turkey.
And media sources stated on the fifth of last February, reported that the Islamic militias affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood had cut thousands of trees in Al-Mahmoudiyah forest in the city of Afrin, since the winter of last year, as only a few were spared from them.
North Press Agency obtained photos documenting the size of the cutting area in Al-Mahmoudiyah forest, where the trees were cut, logged and sold in other regions, and local sources from Afrin region indicated that the percentage of trees that were cut in the last period exceeded / 30 / percent across the region.
