​​​​​​​5 years on occupation of Afrin

 With the aim of perpetuating its occupation in Afrin canton and changing its demographics;  The Turkish occupation state, with the supported by  Brotherhood associations, established 22 settlements on the lands and properties of the displaced, which include hundreds of settlement units, and the settlement of families from other regions and countries there.

 After forcibly displacing more than 350,000 people from occupied Afrin, during its occupation of their canton on March 18, 2018, the Turkish occupation state changed the demography of the canton;  to consolidate its occupation there by establishing more than (22) settlements and housing more than 500,000 settlers there, and settling them in areas other than their own, with the support and financing of Brotherhood associations.

 The occupying power worked to settle Turkmen and Palestinian families in these settlements and the homes of the displaced.

 According to statistics, the percentage of Turkmens who were brought in from various Syrian regions constitutes 30%, while the percentage of Palestinians is 5%.

 This is in addition to settling the families of its mercenaries, who were brought in by the occupying state, in agreement with Russia and the Damascus government, from Eastern Ghouta in the countryside of the capital, Damascus, several days after the occupation of Afrin;  To settle it in place of its people who were forcibly displaced from their homes by the occupation.

 Similar to Ghouta, the three parties transferred the mercenaries of the Turkish occupation and their families in 2020 from the regions of Daraa to northern Syria and settled them in the occupied regions of Afrin, al-Bab, Azaz, and Jarabulus.

 In detail, more than 22 settlements within 5 years

 The first steps of the Turkish occupation, on November 15, 2018, were the establishment of a settlement complex called "Al-Qarya Al-Shamiya" in reference to the mercenaries of the "Al-Jabha Al-Shamiya", on the mountain slopes west of the town of Marimin, south of the city of Afrin.

 And the establishment of residential apartments on the banks of the Afrin River in the city center on January 4, 2021, with the support and financing of "relief organizations."

 And in the center of the occupied city of Afrin, the Turkish occupation authorities seized the records of the indigenous people in the Ashrafieh neighborhood, belonging to Mahmoud Kalash, Hanan Nasser, and Muhammad Ali, from the village of Qibar to establish a camp for the families of mercenaries.

 Our agency obtained from its sources information about the settlements established by the occupying power, with funding from organizations operating under "charitable" names.

 Mobata district

 The Qatari association called "Al-Bayan" established a settlement complex in the village of Afraza in the Mabata district, in the square where Newroz celebrations were held.

 Janders district

Building settlements in (the villages of Muhammadiyah and Deir Ballut, the establishment of settlement units over the ancient hill of Janders district, near the village of Yalanquz, the village of Jalma, Diwan Tahtani, Qulka, Iska, and Kafr Safra), and it is supervised by the so-called "AFAD" association affiliated with the Turkish occupation state.

 In the village of Haj Hasno, the Syrian Forum, headed by the so-called "Ghassan Hitto", the former head of the so-called "interim coalition government" of the mercenaries, announced that the so-called "Al-Ihsan for Relief and Development" and headed by Baraa Al-Samudi, had started on April 2, 2021, the implementation of the building project 247    settlement unit on "Gai Shoti" near Mount Qazqli, in the vicinity of the village of Kafr Safra.

 The Brotherhood’s so-called “White Hands” association, in cooperation with the Turkish occupation, finished building a settlement village at the “Mount Sheikh Muhammad” site, northwest of the village of Kafr Safra, in September 2022;  To settle the "Palestinian" families from the vicinity of Damascus.

 On January 4, 2023, the so-called Palestinian "Ajnadayn" association opened a settlement between the villages of Hamilka and Rifaatiya in Janders, to settle 200 families of the Turkish occupation's mercenaries.

 Rajo district

 The Turkish occupation worked to establish 3 settlement complexes along the border strip in the villages of the district.

 And the establishment of a settlement in the village of Midan Ikbis, on the border strip with the Turkish occupation state, and a settlement in the plain of the village of Shadia.

 Shiye hand

 Building a settlement in the village of Jagla with the support and financing of the mercenaries of "Sultan Suleiman Shah" (Al-Amshat), and a settlement complex between the village of Jagla and Qarmtaq to settle 300 families of the Turkish occupation mercenaries who fought in Libya.

 Shera district

 In the Yazidi village of Pavilion, on November 12, 2020, the occupying state established a settlement complex that includes 70 settlement units under the name "Cooperation Camp", funded by Qatari and Kuwaiti Brotherhood associations, where hundreds of families from various Syrian regions have settled, in addition to the village of Qibar.

 Shirawa district

 The association called "Living in Dignity for the People of Palestine 48" established a settlement complex that includes 99 settlement units under the name "Basma", in the Yazidi village of Shadiriyeh to settle the Palestinian families who were brought by the Turkish occupation state from the Palestinian camps in Syria, including the Yarmouk camp.

 In the village of Khalta, the occupying power established a settlement complex that includes 300 settlement units under the name "Kuwait Al-Rahma" with the support and funding of the Kuwaiti Brotherhood associations.

confusion hand

 As for Bulbulah district, the occupation established 7 settlements to settle the families it brought from other Syrian regions. Last year, under Russian sponsorship, it brought 30 families from the village of Umm Batna in Quneitra, according to the Human Rights Organization, Afrin-Syria.

 settlements under construction

 The so-called "White Hands" association is working to establish a new settlement in the forests located in the village of Qatma in Shara district, under the name of (Al-Safiya) village, with the support and funding of the Palestinian and Gulf Brotherhood associations.

 In a related context, sources said that the association of the so-called "Wafaa Al-Muhsinin" started establishing a new settlement in the village of Kafr Safra during September 2022.

 This information constitutes a small part of what the Turkish occupation state is practicing in terms of demographic change in occupied Afrin, if it works to erase and obliterate its original culture and Turkify it as a preparation.  To detach it from Syrian lands, and annex it to Turkish lands.

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