Afrinpost
The Media Office in Afrin of the Kurdish Democratic Unity Party in Syria (Yekiti) touched on the sixth of June, the situation of pyrene factories and the production of aleppo soap in the Kurdish region of Afrin occupied by Ankara and the Islamic militias affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
The office said that “it is known that the Turkish occupation has targeted the economic, industrial, commercial and agricultural infrastructure of the Afrin region. the perpetuation of the state of chaos, and letting mercenary militias to violate, criminalize, rob.”
Continuing: “The factories of extracting olive seed oil and soap-making were subject to thefts, as soon as the occupation army and its mercenaries had desecrated the lands of the region; where the entire “Hasso and Kedah” labs were dismantled, transferred, and half of the “Alwan” lab to extract seed oil, in addition to stealing electric generating sets, concentrators, some electric motors and equipment for / 14 / other laboratories, and the stock of / 17 / factories of produced coal and fuel ( Diesel, Kerosene), only eight plants are currently operating.
In addition, “As for the 20 soap factories, each of them stored between 400-500 / tons of soap annually and large quantities of kostik and oil, in addition to the supplies, most of which were stolen by the mercenaries or large royalties were paid to recover part of it, while only 11 factories are currently operating there, with a minimum annual production capacity of 100-150 tons of soap.
The office pointed out that “these factories were pioneering at the level of Syria, in terms of quantity, quality of production, and were exporting large quantities of them to abroad, benefiting the country and the citizen, while currently suffering weakness and most of their owners pay royalties – including monthly – to avoid new thefts and extortion that affects them at the hands of armed mercenaries loyal to the Syrian-Brotherhood opposition coalition and Turkey, in addition to a total of tens of millions of dollars in total losses.
And you have witnessed the industry in Afrin during the era of “self-management”, a remarkable development in terms of the expansion of factories and existing industries, as it brought to Afrin industries that were not present in the past, foremost of which is the manufacture of clothes, plastic packages, and others.
With the announcement of Self-Administration, the opening of new pyrene laboratories was prevented, as the previous laboratories were sufficient to treat the remains of contemporary production, while a large part of the industrialists in Aleppo went to the Kurdish region as a result of safety in it compared to the various Syrian regions that were the hotbeds of the war.
Producers of clothes were most affected by the war in Aleppo, where they sought refuge in Afrin to find a safe haven from which they could pursue their livelihoods, without fear of war or theft, and there was no other region in all of Syria more appropriate than Afrin.
The entry of factories and the expansion of production began with the middle of the year 2014, that is, after the passage of about one and a half years, the armed conflict in Aleppo, where the disruption of the livelihoods of the citizens of those workshops led to the reopening of them in Afrin, in terms of manpower and security.
During the war years, the various sectors of production in Aleppo were subjected to a systematic campaign of sabotage, mainly affecting its infrastructure through theft, looting or destruction by the Muslim Brotherhood’s militias.
As Aleppo was considered the capital of the Syrian industry, and the first Syrian cities whose massive industrial installations were subjected to masterminds of sabotage and theft, after professional groups dismantled the largest electronic and expensive machines and transferred them to Turkish territory under the full view of the Ankara government.
Then, the Syrian statements and calls to stop this systematic looting came up, and the Federation of Syrian Chambers of Industry demanded the Syrian regime to send messages to the United Nations in which Turkey complained about its permissibility and participation in dismantling the Syrian industrial structure in Aleppo.
Spreading on social networking sites and various media outlets dozens of photos and videos that show trucks and various types of mechanisms as they ship entire factories to Turkey with the help of Brotherhood militias, whose main concern was the destruction and sabotage of Syria.
Turkish businessmen in southeast Turkey confirmed that members of the Muslim Brotherhood were dismantling the devices and equipment of factories that stopped working in Syria and smuggled them to Turkey.
This came after many months after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the regime sent two letters to the President of the International Security Council and the Secretary-General of the United Nations at the beginning of the year 2019, in which they said, “About a thousand factories in the city of Aleppo were subjected to theft and transport to Turkey with the full knowledge and facilitation of the Turkish government, which is an illegal act it amounts to acts of piracy and an aggressive act that targets Syrians in their livelihoods and economic lives.
The industrialists had many moves in this regard, the most important of which was the head of the Federation of Syrian Chambers of Industry, Fares al-Shihabi, when he wrote a book to the Foreign Ministry of the Syrian regime in which he talked about the “terrorist groups stealing machines and equipment and m cars, excavators and cranes as well as raw materials from Aleppo, and transported to Turkey through the known border gates controlled by terrorist gangs.
The Syrian regime’s parliament at that time had a talk in which it revealed the intentions and ambitions in Syria, when its member, Anas al-Shami, confirmed to Sputnik in February 2019 that “the Turkish-Erdogan regime from the first moments has a dream that long ago coveted, we realizethe strategic geographic depth of Turkey in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, which is in the silk road, and it is the oldest inhabited city in history, the country of important industry and trade that is very well known. It has largely covered what is in northeastern Turkey, and therefore they dream today to control these areas and their goods, and the Aleppo factories were stolen by the Ottomans.
In a report to the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar on July 9, 2019, Fares al-Shihabi, head of the Federation of Syrian Chambers of Industry, said that the northern border strip has “industrial, agricultural and commercial importance, and previously there was an agreement between the two countries to establish a free trade zone in it.”
Al-Shihabi based his assertion on the economic dimension of the Turkish project in Syria on “looting and theft suffered by Aleppo factories and factories and strategic agricultural crops from wheat, cotton and olives, in addition to trying to dump Syrian markets with Turkish goods smuggled to harm the Syrian industry.”
