Erdogan’s Imperial Boast- “The cities that we call Aleppo, Idlib, Damascus and Raqqa will become our provinces, like Antep, Hatay and Urfa”,
on Sunday, February 14 , 2025 info from SDFpress Kurdiscat Al Jazeera Hawarnews via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-G1R
The Afrin canton and city was once a peaceful area and, during the horrors of the Syrian Civil War, it was saved from the destruction of other areas by Kurdish self-defense groups which eventually coalesced around the YPG or People’s Defense Units. Afrin became a major quiet refuge for internal refugees (IDPs).
Afrin almost became part of Turkey in 1939 when the neighbouring Hatay province was separated from Syria although it had a demographic Arab majority, and given to Turkey in a dirty and still disputed deal by the French, and has been aggressively Turkified ever since.
Jan 2o 2018 Afrin City falls: Turkish Fascist massacres as Resistance goes Guerilla Turkey militarily occupied the Kurdish canton of Afrin/Efrîn (Rojava, Syrian Kurdistan) with its offensive that began on January 20, 2018 and was completed on March 24, 2018.
Afrin was sold out. The same day that the invasion began President Erdogan agreed to build a Russian Nuclear plant and allow a 2nd Turkstream pipeline, in exchange for key invasion support and for airspace permission for its air force to bomb Afrin (Efrin).
Defeated but defiant. Reports of massacres by Turkish troops and the mercenaries of FSA came from around Afrin as the NATO tanks finally rolled in. The local defense groups, YPG and womens YPJ held out heroically for 2 months against Turkey which has the 2nd largest NATO army.
During the fighting, the Kurds of Afrin were forcibly expelled from their homes, lands and businesses and forced to flee. Minority groups, such as Yazidis, were declared infidels and murdered.
Since March 2018, human rights violations against the indigenous population have been constant, kidnappings, rapes, murders, demographic replacement, thefts, environmental destruction including 280,000 century-old olive trees of the Kurdish region.
The areas around Afrin were occupied by a plethora of divided Syrian jihadist groups from around Syria which had formed when Qatar, Saudi, Turkey and the US had directed their funds and arms to religious extremists in the first phase of the civil war and many who fled north to Idlib and Afrin due to the Russian backed Assad victories,
The Afrin areas were often contested between elements of the Syrian regime and over 50 Syrian rebel and jihadist groups, many claiming divine rights. Turkey controls all border supplies and over time co-opted the Syrian rebel groups and turned them into proxies. Turkey endlessly accused the YPG Kurdish defense in Afrin of being “terrorists” even though there was never any proof of a single “terror” attack on Turkey.
Turkey’s Den of Thieves, Racists, Rapists and hired Al Qaeda Thugs
Supervised by Turkey the religious jihadist infested the area, looting, kidnapping women for slaves and ransom and murdering civilians to take their property. In many ways, they behave like ISIS, targeting minorities and each other in a depraved manner.
Continue reading “Turkey gives Efrîn (Afrin) to HTS/AlQaeda, sends Jihadi mercenaries to War on Rojava, and seeks more Military Bases across Syria”
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