Afrinpost – Special
Islamic militias affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood carry out bulldozing and excavating works in archaeological sites in order to steal their burials and archaeological finds, and transfer them to Turkey under the supervision of a full range of intelligence from the Turkish occupation, seeking to strike the cultural identity of the occupied Afrin region.
In the context, “Afrinpost” learned that the group called “Abu Shakra” of the militia of “Sultan Murad Brigade” has been carrying out digging and bulldozing works for days on a small archeological hill located near the area between the villages of “Qurtqlaq” and “Qastal Qishk” of the district Shara/ Sharan.
The source confirmed that drilling operations are carried out by heavy machinery.
Recently, one of the “Facebook pages” has published stolen antiquities and illegal excavations that the gunmen carrying out, but it is cautious not to mention the locations of the excavations or the features of the geographical areas being excavated.
The page is called “Konouz wa Dafa’en Al-Madi Sultan Ahmed”, and it seeks to promote the Ottoman thought, by glorifying it, and seeking to excavate antiquities based on signs that may lead, according to the Facebook group, to burials and treasures, to extract them from the Syrian regions, through the theft of antiquities and sell them to the Turkish occupation.
Since the first day of the Turkish military occupation, the Turkish occupation with its armed men have used advanced devices to uncover antiquities and minerals, and the people have previously confirmed that the occupation army has extracted quantities of gold buried in the village of Ba’rava, in addition to the constant talk about excavation in the ancient hills of Afrin, which archaeologists confirm that they included several layers, thus containing relics from different eras belonging to successive civilizations.
