Afrinpost-Special
In an incident that was not anticipated on the day the locusts invaded Afrin on the 18th of March of 2018, the militants of the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood organization, who call themselves the “Syrian National Army / Free Army”, deliberately broke every tanbur they encountered in the homes of Kurdish civilians, as they represent the Kurdish heritage and folklore, while the Kurds were looking at the locusts from the windows of their homes in terror.
The 18th of March 2018 was one of the most terrible days in history in Afrin, when Ankara occupied the beloved Kurdish city, and let the Islamic militants in it steal everything, even “cattle and sheep,” which prompted activists and politicians to call it “locust day” Afrin represented a milestone in the history of the Brotherhood’s armed rebellion, which began nearly nine years ago, and was called “revolution”, but it did not naturally bear any of the human values, so it was reactionary and fascist.
During that day, “March 18,” in addition to the destruction of the statue of “Kawa the Blacksmith,” which is considered a Kurdish legend, and the historic torch of Nowruz, and the destruction of the ancient Ain Dara hill with air strikes, something happened that did not catch the world’s mind, as Islamic militia militants broke every “tanbur”. They encountered him in the houses of the Kurds, which were empty at the time.
According to a source from “Afrin,” told the “Afrinpost” correspondent that the gunmen had deliberately broken tanbur in front of the Kurds to humiliate them, and to show that they were concealing their heritage and folklore.
According to the source, the gunmen entered a hairdressing shop belonging to his sister, in which there was an instrument for her daughter, as they took out the instrument and broke it in the street, in Jenderes, according to the testimonies of the elderly in those villages.
Tanbur is one of the important musical instruments in the Kurdish heritage and folklore. There were many musical institutes in Afrin, the most important of which were the Arya Institute, the Adik Institute, and other institutes closed after Turkey’s occupation of Afrin.
The source said that the militias harass every person who knows that is trying to learn to play the tanbur, and added: “But here we are a group of women and girls who meet in a house somewhere, and there are tanburs. We have a teacher.
