Afrinpost – Special
The Turkish occupation and armed militia militants of the Muslim Brotherhood, cut off 800 meters of agricultural land in the occupied Kurdish Afrin region, amid the cutting of more olive trees and the destruction of holy sites, under the pretext of building a separation wall in the region.
According to sources from the region, the Turkish occupation has built a separation wall in the vicinity of the village of “Za’are” in “Bulbula / Bulbul” area in Afrin, after cutting wide areas in its surroundings and annexing it to Turkish lands.
The sources told Afrinpost that the Turkish lands, which were about 1 km away from the mentioned village, had become about 200 meters away from the village, and thus Turkey had cut nearly 800 meters from the lands of the village, by building a concrete wall equipped with metal wires.
The source asserted that during this cutting process, Turkey had included hundreds of olive trees for its lands, and to successfully complete the process, several of them were also cut off, and the Sheikh Hamza shrine was destroyed in the village.
On February 25th, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the continuation of Turkey’s attempts to expand its borders adjacent to Afrin region, as it persists in dividing more Syrian lands, and is working to expand the Turkish borders by the village of Baliya, which belongs to the district of Bulbula, with a distance of more than 315 meters, where The old boundaries were at longitude and latitude: (36 * 47’38.6 ″ N36 * 49’58.9 ″ E), while the current boundaries were at longitude and latitude: (36 * 47’28.6 ″ N36 * 49’56.6 ″ E) ..
The Turkish occupation also grabbed the lands of Afrin from the side of the village of “Zaarah”, which belongs to the district of Bulbula, which includes the Sheikh Hamza shrine from its upper side, where it deducted more than 365 meters of Syrian lands, so the old borders were on longitude and latitude: (36 * 48) ‘01.1 ″ N36 * 47’37.3 ″ E), while the current boundaries are at latitude and longitude: (36 * 47’49.2 ″ N36 * 47’36.4 ″ E).
And the observatory transmitted accounts from eyewitnesses from the people of the region, that the occupation confiscated many of the property’s original residents, as the village, which was 800 meters from the Turkish border and became very close to only 400 meters.
The “Syrian Observatory” also learned that the Turkish forces have taken approximately 250 meters from the “Gar Mountain” area of the Bulbula district, until the current borders are at latitude and longitude: (36 * 47’32.1 ″ N36 * 48’36.6 ″ E).
In the village of “Paniraka” of Rajo district, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the Turkish forces are completing the construction of the separation wall, but that it will change the course of building the wall.
