Afrin Yazidis, Alawites subjected to violations by Turkey's gangs

AFRIN

Afrin canton was known for social life and cultural and religious diversity away from racial segregation and sectarian profligacy. The darkness of the Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries has befallen on the inhabitants of Afrin; their holy sites were destroyed, then they were displaced, and settle mercenaries' families of the Turkish occupation army in their homes and villages. In addition to the kidnapping of the Yazidis in Afrin and driving them to the mosques to forcibly to convert Islam.

There are 22 villages in Afrin, in which some 25,000 Yezidis inhabitants live in the villages of " Basofan , Fakira,' Ali Qena, Qastal jandu , Qibar, Ghazawiyah, Birj Adolo , Qatma,' Ein Dara, Ternada, Sinka, Kafr Zeit, Kimar, Jakla, Eastern Ashka, Baie, Qjoma, Qila and Janders city."

As for the Alawites, thousands of whom were living in Afrin, and the largest part of them in the center of Mobata district; estimated at more than 5 thousand people, where the Alawites were preparing to organize themselves in Afrin’s Alawites Council when the attacks of the Turkish occupation army and its gangs began. Then they were displaced from their city hitting the social balance as they wanted to organize themselves better within the Federation of Religions in Afrin canton.

With the intensification of attacks by the Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries on Afrin canton, the villages and temples of the Yezidis and Alawites were the first targets of the bombing of the Turkish aggression, causing Turkey to occupy all the Yezidi and Alawite villages by displacing their inhabitants amid fear of committing genocide against them.

The Alawites and Yezidis are now stationed in al-Shahba canton and most of them are stationed in the villages of Kafr Naasah, Kafrnaya, Tel-Rifat , Fafin, Wahshia ,Berxwedan camp and Serdam ."

"Citizen Yezidi Darwish Marco from Fakira village belonging to Janders area 83 years said "Turkey wants to re-establish the glory of the Ottoman Sultanate. Now it has displaced us from our homes, destroyed our sanctities and settled our mercenaries in our homes, and as you have been living in Islam, we call on the infidels to incite racism and discrimination and invite us to the infidels to plant racism and discrimination between religions and peoples that were living together in Afrin

"The mercenaries kidnap Afrin women especially the Yazidis, as did Islamic State's gangs (IS) with Şengal women and bought them as captives in al-Raqqa city, now they repeat what did (IS) gangs with Yezidi in Şengal."

On his part, Hussein Ahmed of Alawites community from Mobata district said that Turkey is the supporter of terrorism and the mercenaries that destroyed and displaced millions of the Syrian people and all the countries of the world know this well, so it rebelled more and occupied Afrin and displaced its people and created discrimination and racism among its components."

Walid al-Hamo, from Alawites community, said that they, like the Afrin residents, reject the council formed by the Turkish occupation of its mercenaries, who are working to sow discord between the components and religions of Afrin despite their displacement of their indigenous inhabitants and the demographic change by the Turkish occupation army, To settle  of mercenaries 's families  in  Afrin people 's homes

Report: Shervin Mustafa

Photograph: Jafar Jafo

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ANHA