Turkification policy moves from Syria to Libya

From Turkification policy the Afrin streets, to entering Turkish schools and curricula for Syrian villages, as well as raising Turkish flags in some public parks, until recently to the use of currency in the north of the country, this "practices" have moved to Libya.

According to reports, the municipality of Tajura, which is located on the outskirts of the capital, Tripoli, called the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent on its largest street, in a move that provoked the Libyans, because of the presence of several important historical national figures and the period of Turkish presence in Libya linked to a black history in the Libyan memory.

Meanwhile, the mayor of Tajura, Hussein Attieh, justified in a post posted on his Facebook page, the decision, saying that “Suleiman the Magnificent sent forces and leaders, the most important of which is the Ottoman leader, Murad Agha, to help the people of Tripoli liberate their city, and Tripoli was liberated in 1551.”

However, the mayor was subjected to a criticism attack by many Libyans on social media, provoked by this step, where activist Muhammad al-Lumi expressed his surprise at naming the most important street in his city in the name of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, stressing that "the history of the Turks is not honored in Libya, as they did not present anything positive to the country despite their occupation of it for a period of 400 years.

In his turn, activist Fawzi al-Asti counted that the period of Turkish rule in Libya was "full of injustice, poverty, ignorance and disease," noting that it was "a period of 400 years of black history that made Libya one of the peoples supervising the economic, social and scientific decline."

For his part, the activist Ramzi saw that it was better to name the street as one of the names of the Libyan militants, saying, "Britain honored a Libyan doctor who died of corona by standing for long lines while his body passed, but in our country he was not even mentioned in the media." As for the activist Ahmed Mahmoud, he commented He asked, "The sons of Tajura who sacrificed their lives, do they not deserve to have their streets called by their names?"

Kurdish, Syrian and international human rights organizations accuse the Turkish occupation forces in Afrin of committing all kinds of violations that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity against the people of the region, in an effort to force them to leave their homes and lands to implement a process of demographic change in order to impose Turkification policy in the region.

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ANHA