Turkish occupation wants to change Afrin demographics by various methods

NEWS DESK

According to various sources from inside Afrin canton the Turkish occupation provides for the policy of demographic change of Afrin canton. Among the methods used for this purpose are forcing Afrin people to sell their property to Arabic families from Afrin who have relations with the mercenaries of Turkey by threatening the Afrin residents of the Kurds with murder and deportation forced from the province, and also resettled Turkmen families and mercenary families in the region. In addition to the resettlement of hundreds of families of mercenaries displaced from al-Ghouta in Janders area.

Imposition of the sale of land to the families of mercenaries

In an incident with a citizen in Afrin canton called", A," he did not want to be named and his place of residence in Afrin district for security measures. Told( ANHA) that a member of an Araicb family belonging to (Jabhit al-Nusra/Hayet Tahrir al-Sham)mercenaries offered him to sell his grove planted with olive trees, which has about 3,000 trees.

"The offer was rejected completely, and the next day a member of the same family came from the Arabic family of (Jabhit al-Nusra /al-Nusra Front) mercenaries, along with some of the mercenary elements of (Jabhit al-Nusra). They told me that the olive trees of this family must be sold willing or not. I told them I will answer you later, indicating that he feared for his life after the threat of mercenaries him.

Confiscation of civilians 's properties

Other sources confirmed that the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries are currently confiscating civilian homes in several areas of Afrin under the pretext of dealing with Democratic Autonomous Administration.

During a telephone conversation with a civilian he did not want to be named " M,N" who also preferred not to be named and where he lived "Life in Afrin has become like a nightmare. The mercenaries prevent people from roaming in cities and villages. We do not know what our destiny is, what we are waiting for and the sense of fear overwhelms us.”

He pointed out that in addition to the practices of mercenaries, there are some traitorous Kurds who roam with mercenaries in villages, cities and areas of Afrin and help them to confiscate homes and property of citizens, on the pretext that their owners have relation to the Democratic Autonomous Administration and People and Women Protection Units (YPG, YPJ).

On the other hand, reliable sources reported that the mercenaries kidnapped the N, O family of six people, including two women from Afrin canton last week, and their fate is still unknown.

The Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries launched on January 20 of this year fierce attacks on Afrin canton using all types of weapons, including aviation, forcing thousands of Afrin people to leave and head towards al-Shahba canton fearing of genocide of the Turkish occupation and the violations of its army and mercenaries, and hundreds of civilians were martyred  mostly children and women, and hundreds were injured by massacres committed by the Turkish occupation army against Afrin people during the aggression against them.

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ANHA