Afrinpost – Special
The Afrinpost correspondent in the occupied Kurdish region of Afrin monitored a public appearance of the Al-Nusra Front (Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda) militants who distinguished themselves from their Muslim counterparts ’fighters, dressed and used as well as the slogans they placed on their shoulders.
The reporter emphasized that armed men with different clothes famous for the jihadists of the “Al-Nusra Front” were recently seen in the streets of Afrin accompanied by their families, and carrying black slogans bearing the words “There is no god but God” and black turbanes wrapping their heads in the framework of the Turkish occupation’s efforts to transform the occupied Kurdish region , To the hotbed of Takfiri jihadists as an Islamic emirate.
The correspondent added that the Turkish occupation is planning to merge these grassroots elements with the “Ahrar Al-Sharqia” militia, in preparation for their settlement in the militia-occupied areas in the region, especially in Jenderes district.
Convoys leaving the areas of clashes in the Idlib governorate to the occupied Kurdish region of Afrin, are arriving as a result of the heavy fighting between Russian and regime forces on the one hand and Islamic militias of the Turkish occupation and the Al-Nusra Front organization on the other.
In March 2018 alone, more than 500,000 Afrini people were abandoned towards the Shahba, Aleppo, and other regions, in one of the largest forced displacements witnessed in the Syrian war, after seven years of security and safety that the Afrini people lived under the “administration” that they formed under The name of “Self-administration in Afrin Province”.
The Turkish occupation, instead of the original Kurdish population, attracted “settlers”, who are mostly families of Islamic militia militants affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in their entirety. The Turkish occupation has tried and continues to attract settlers from families of Islamic militia militants known as the (Free Army, National Army, Jabhat Al-Nusra) consolidate its occupation of the Kurdish region, and change its demography.
On the other hand, the Turkish occupation, since its military occupation to Afrin, is implementing the policy of impoverishing the Kurdish indigenous people, by leaving the door open for Islamic militia militants to carry out theft, kidnapping and extortion.
The Turkish occupation also worked to dilute the original belonging to Afrin, by giving the settlers identification cards proving that they live in Afrin and issued by its occupying council in the region, which would mean the inability to distinguish later between the indigenous population of the Kurdish region, or the settlers whom the occupation brought in to bring about change Demographic.
