Turkey's colonial plans unfold in occupied Afrin

Turkish occupation continues to occupy more lands of the Syrian territories to annex them to Turkey, after expanding border strip in the villages of Shera, Bulbuleh and Rajo districts, about 2 km deep in Syrian territory", special sources confirmed to our ANHA .

In June of last year, the Turkish occupation expanded the border strip in several villages in Shera and Bulbuleh district, in village of Zaara in the Bulbuleh district, where the Turkish occupation advanced the border strip about 1 km within the Syrian lands after occupying a strategic mountain range and sat up military bases on it to extend its control over Neighboring villages and the entire border strip with Turkey, as well as tightening control over large areas in the region.

In the village of Balea, the Turkish occupation expanded the border strip about 315 inside the Syrian territories, after unfairly uprooted hundreds of olive trees. Turkish occupation has deliberately settled Turkmen families. Since the first day of its occupation of Afrin canton, families from Hama and Damascus and areas in the northern countryside of Aleppo, after tempting them financially and providing all daily necessities to remain on the border strip with Afrin along side strengthen occupation power from Shera district, to the border villages of Jindiris.

The Turkish occupation intends to create a Turkmen belt along the border strip with Turkey on the border villages, after forgery facts and open false records of the people region because they are of Turkmen origin, and replace names of several villages in the area by others. Day after day, Turkey's colonial intentions appear in the Syrian territories. In June of this year, The Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu visited the Hammam border village crossing in Janders district and briefed on works reality at the crossing, in addition visiting the Turkish occupation institutions in the center of Afrin city.

In the past few days, Turkish Interior Minster repeated his unannounced visit to the border crossing of the village of Hammam, which was established after the occupation of Afrin canton in a year, without the approval of the Damascus government, whose silence encourages Turkey to occupy the Syrian territories .

That was not limited to the villages of Shera, Bulbuleh and Rajo districts, but it continued in the occupied villages of Sherawa as well, after occupying Afrin canton for several months, a year later, with the aim of separating occupied Afrin canton from al-Shahba canton the Turkish occupation built a cement wall to separate the villages of occupied Sherawa district from the rest of the areas starting from the villages of the Darat Azza area, in Jabal Samaan (Samaan’s Castle), passing through the villages of the occupied Shirawa district in Kemar and Basila, until the occupied city of Azaz, east of the center of the occupied city of Afrin.

After exposing Turkish occupation practices in international forums in building the separation wall, its construction works had stopped in several villages and was limited to certain villages in Sherawa district, which were in the village of Kimar and Basile. At the beginning of this month, local sources from the occupied villages in Sherawa informed that "the Turkish occupation is raising dirt berms in the occupied villages along the contact lines, including the village of Burj Haidar, Kabashin and Favertin, after demolishing several houses.

It is noteworthy that the construction works began in 2015 after replacing the border strip with a cement wall, which swallow distances up to 500 meters and cutting down thousands of olive trees belonging to the people of Afrin.

According to local sources , the Turkish occupation provided the border strip with modern and advanced monitoring cameras, in addition to placing listening and monitoring devices in the olive trees in order to monitor the movement of civilians.

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