Turkish colonies in Syria to repeat Iskenderun Banner's experience.. 2

Part 2: Al-Shahba's colony ... would it be another Iskenderun Banner?

JIHAD ROJ-ALAN ROJ/ NEWS DESK

Drag al-Shahba's areas towards the way of Iskenderun Banner which is stolen from the Syrian North.

In 2011, the revolution broke out in Syria, and the history re-established itself. Turkey intervened, financed and armed, and it contributed to distorting the revolution and exporting the militants to Syria in order to destroy and ruin, and then, to intervene militarily and officially to occupy a number of Syrian cities in a scenario that recalls the occupation of Iskenderun Banner.

Turkey practices in the areas of al-Shahba in northern Syria its earlier policies in Iskenderun Banner. Turkey first began to displace the indigenous peoples, especially the Kurds, in the occupied areas such as Jrablos, al-Bab, Azaz and al-Rai.

And then, it began to change the names of the Syrian cities to Turkish, just as Iskenderun Banner has been converted to Hatay previously, raised the Turkish flag and pictures of Erdogan, imposed educational curricula in Turkish, and recently, Turkey has granted school vacations and opened Turkish academies and universities in an attempt to construct a Turkish generation in northern Syria that would vote for the interest of Turkey in a referendum which Turkey may hold in the future in order to annex these areas to Turkey, in addition to granting citizenship to thousands of Syrians in Turkey, and it may send them to the areas occupied by them later.

Turkey’s frequent allegations with the beginning of the Syrian crisis to protect the Turkmens in areas of northern Syria brought to mind the same allegations made in Iskenderun Banner to protect the Turks in the Banner. Today's allegations prepared the ground for Turkey's entry into al-Shahba canton in addition to occupying a number of al-Shahba canton’s cities in North Syria.

In order to practice the Turkification policy, and isolate these areas of its Syrian cultural and social nature and identity which mean that what Turkey did in Iskenderun Banner is being repeated again in al- Shahba canton.

Systematic Turkification in preparation for separating al-Shahba in the future

In Jrablos,al-Bab and Azaz areas, the Turkish occupation began to change the demographics of these areas in general, and it displaced the indigenous people as it destroyed more than 50 Kurdish and Arab villages between the cities of al-Bab, Azaz and Jrablos, and then resettled the Iraqi Turkmens and Asian immigrants in addition to some Arab people connected to Turkey.

Raising the Turkish flags in the occupied areas, Turkish writings in the public squares, and changing the names of areas such as transforming the name al-Rai town to Çobanbye, in addition to naming Aqeil Mountain that overlooks al- Bab city in the name of Bulent al-Bayrak, a Turkish officer who was killed there do not make a doubt that the Turkish objective of staying in northern Syria is to occupy and prepare for annexing them to the borders of the Turkish state later.

Turkish news agencies and media also use Turkish names to express Syrian towns and villages, indicating that there are Turkish ambitions in the Syrian territories. The Turkish media outlets call al-Turkmen Mount in Lattakia’s countryside in Syria, Bayer Bojaq, knowing that the name of Turkmen Mount also appeared after the Syrian crisis which means that historically, there is no mountain in Syria called Turkmen Mount.

In addition to opening branches of the Turkish post and setting up towers for the Turkish telecommunication networks, branches of Turkish Islamic academies have been opened in the cities of Jrablos and al-Bab. It also opened a branch of the Turkish Islamic Bashak Shahir Academy in al-Bab, the occupied city of in northern Syria after the Higher Education Council in Turkey contracted to open the branch. The above-mentioned academy receives financial and logistical support from Bashak Shahir municipality, located in Istanbul city.

The administrations of the occupied areas of northern Syria are Turkish officers, and a Wali was put for each area, in addition to raising Turkey’s flags and Erdogan’s pictures in the institutions. In addition, Turkey has adopted military points on the entire belt between al-Baba, Azaz and Jrablos, and the transfer of soldiers and equipment to those areas is ongiong.

In addition to all the above, systematic attempts to turkificate everything in the areas of northern Syria occupied by Turkey, known as the Euphrates Shield were registered. It has been common that Ankara would supervise all walks of life in these areas openly through the presence of Wali, Turkish officers and security officials in most occasions, ceremonies and, etc.

Practices pave the way for Turkey to join these areas to its territories, and Turkey may be waiting for the opportunity to do so. It also exploited the outbreak of World War II to annex Iskenderun Banner, and this time, with the congratulation of the Syrian opposition and the regime's silence.

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