Turkey repeats what it did with Sanjak of Alexandretta

The teachers of Ad-Darbasiyah explained that the goal of the occupation in the Turkification of the occupied territories is to remove the components from their culture and language in preparation for its inclusion in Turkey, on top of them the Kurds, and they said, "Turkey will return what it did with Sanjak of Alexandretta."

3 October, 2020 03:59

AL-HASAKAH, BOTAN HUSSIEN

The attempts of the Turkish occupation in the areas it occupied in northern and eastern Syria, such as Afrin, Serêkaniyê, and Girê Spi / Tal Abyad, are evident through its overt policies to Turkification the region by imposing the Turkish language as its official language, raising the Turkish flag in the institutions, and dealing in the Turkish lira.

Turkish practices indicate that it is paving the way for the carving of more Syrian lands and annexing them, as it worked in Sanjak of Alexandretta.", which is located in the far northwest of Syria in 1939 when occupied it and the French army retreated, as it began the process of Turkification policy the region by imposing the Turkish language officially instead of the Arabic language and adopting the Lira. Turkish as the official currency.

Hani Muhammad, one of the teachers in Ad-Darbasiyah schools, says, "Turkey's goal of Turkification the region is to eradicate the Kurds from their roots and remove them from their regions, and the ancient Ottoman history is an eyewitness to what modern Turkey is doing now in the Middle East, North and East Syria in general."

And Muhammad notes that the occupation is doing the same in the areas it occupied, such as Afrin, Serêkaniyê, and Girê Spi / Tal Abyad, with the aim of making it Turkish by making the Turkish language an official language, raising the Turkish flag above institutions, changing the currency in Turkish lira, as happened recently in Idlib, demographic change, displacement of indigenous people and the settlement of mercenaries in their homes.

Muhammad pointed out that these Turkish policies prove the lie of its claim that it came to Syria with the aim of protecting the Syrians. He said: “Turkey has turned the Syrians into mercenaries and a tool to fight with them in the Syrian and Libyan lands, and recently in Azerbaijan to implement its aggressive plans.”

Muhammad Hani said, at the end of his speech, that "Turkey's reckless policies are no longer hidden from near and far in northern and eastern Syria, which primarily target Kurds in the region."

As for the teacher, Aziza Amin, she noted that Turkey's goal is seeking to annex more Syrian lands to it. "What Turkey is doing in the occupied territories reminds us of what it did in Sanjak of Alexandretta." when it followed a similar policy in changing the currency, language and curricula," she said.

Aziza Amin explained that the occupation is trying to distance the people from their culture and language, forcing students to study in the Turkish language, carrying the Turkish flag, and forcibly displacing them from their areas.

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ANHA