Report translation: Geo-strategic team
The Turkish regime continues to implement its suspicious agendas in the Syrian arena, which complicates the crisis and creates dangerous facts on the ground, especially the strife between the Kurds on the one hand, and the Arabs and Turkmens on the other.
The Turkish regime, led by Erdogan, is continuing its efforts and implementing its plans to change the demographic architecture in Syria in general, and in particular in the occupied Kurdish areas, by housing millions of displaced and recruited Syrians, according to suspicious deals; They recently announced their intention to return one million Syrian refugees in Turkey to northern Syria and resettle them in residential communities that include (250,000 homes) to be built under their supervision and at the expense of "international relief organizations", claiming that these areas guarantee "military, political and security stability" and under the name of "voluntary return." ".
At a time when Turkey imposes on its areas of influence and occupation in northern Syria (Idlib, the so-called areas of the Olive Branch, Euphrates Shield and Spring of Peace) a separating cordon from the inside of Syria, and does not open the crossings to the movement of civilians and goods and the return of displaced persons and refugees to their homes, there is no way for a voluntary return Safe for the displaced people of Afrin, the 200,000 people who have been forcibly displaced since March 2018; These areas do not enjoy peace and security, nor political or military stability, but suffer under chaos, corruption and militia fighting, while Syrian refugees abroad generally do not believe in a voluntary return in the current prevailing conditions, and they hope to return to their original homes after creating the appropriate environments and with international guarantees with the start of a political solution to the country's crisis.
Also, the organizations that participate in implementing demographic change plans, such as “Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management (AFAD), Turkish Red Crescent, IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation - Turkey, Turkish Diyanet Endowment, White Hands Association, Living in Dignity Association - Palestine 48, The Sheikh Abdullah Al-Nouri Charitable Society - State of Kuwait” and others are run by the Turkish Justice and Development Party and the global Muslim Brotherhood’s arms under the labels of “humanitarian and relief”.
The following are various violations and crimes and new facts about the settlement projects in Afrin:
Kfardali Tahtani village - exorbitant fees, arrest of returnees, cancellation of a wedding in Basoufan
The forms of bullying against the Kurds, the people of the region, and insulting labels against them are multiple and continuous, against the background of being armed and guided by the directives of the Turkish intelligence and the strict religious culture, to the point of preventing them from holding their weddings in some cases.
The following are various violations and crimes:
Mapta/Maabatli town - massive takeover and demographic change, bicycle explosion, arbitrary arrests, forest fires, Kimar under attackTo confirm the state of chaos and chaos prevailing in the area, a motorcycle was detonated this morning at the western entrance to Afrin city - at the end of Al-Filat Street. And to refute once again Turkey's claims about the "safe zone".
The following are various violations and crimes:
= Mabeta town:
It is the center of a sub-district, 15 km northwest of the city of Afrin, consisting of about 1,200 houses, and it had about 4,800 original Kurdish residents, all of whom were displaced during the aggression on the region, and about 520 families = 2,200 people returned from them. /, As for the rest, they were forcibly displaced, and about 1500 families = 8000 people/ of those who were recruited were settled there and in about /250/ tents erected on the land of Al Bayader and the Qataranieh site next to and around the town.
As a result of the bombing and the explosion of landmines, / 7 / houses of "(Bakeeh) families" were completely destroyed, and / 4 / houses and the building of the "Municipality and its neighborhood" were partially destroyed, one of which was for the citizen "Muhammad Ali Bakr" who was inhabited by Before the family of "Taha Mustafa al-Khater" displaced from the town of "Tel Qarah" - north of Aleppo, which was bombed by the Turkish army on January 26, 2018, and committed a massacre that killed the parents and four children.
The town is controlled by the militias of the "Syrian Front", which is led by the so-called "Sheikh Juma'a Ahmad al-Jabali" from the countryside of Deir Hafer - east Aleppo, and is taken from 11 to the house of "the late Juma'a Ala, Salah Arif Muhammad, Jalal Adlo, Farid Mukhtar, Jamil Habash , Hosni Mokhtar, Fathi Mokhtar, Khader Ahmed, Adnan Jito, Rasul Rasul, Aras Khoja - two storey building" military headquarters, and from the "Water Company" building a security headquarters and its own prison. And converted the house of "Mustafa Ibrahim" into a middle and high school. The "civil police" militias are based in the buildings of the old police station and the former conscription.
As for the Turkish army and intelligence, they take the old “Nahia” and “Old High School” buildings as their headquarters, and next to them is a floor building for “Hussein Ali Bakr” for housing its members, and it built a concrete wall around it.
There is a tight security cordon around the town, as at its eastern entrance there are two checkpoints for "Al-Shamiya, the Civil Police", at its western entrance there is a common checkpoint for them, and on the "Darkir" road to the south there are two checkpoints for them.
Shortly after the invasion of the town, the militias stole the contents of the returnees' homes, including supplies, copper utensils, gas cylinders, television screens, tools, electrical equipment, solar energy kits, hot water, etc., and all the contents of about 700 seized homes, the contents of about 60 shops and warehouses, and drinking water meters. Of the houses, an electrical generating set for the telephone center and its equipment, the terrestrial and aerial cables for the landline telephone network and its wooden poles, a section of the public electricity network cables, an agricultural tractor by “Refaat Mamish”, a tractor and its accessories by “Hussein Gulu”, and a tractor by “Aslan Zeno” who recovered it After paying a royalty, and two Hyundai pickup cars for "Mohammed Abdel-Rahman Tatar, Shukri Khoja" and another for "Hussein Yusuf Hussein" after he was kidnapped and left on 10/1/2020 AD, and two large electric generating sets in the junction of the neighboring village of "Kokaneh", one of which is for pumping Drinking water and the other to supply several villages with amperes, and the contents of a poultry facility for "Mustafa Kalasho" and the seizure of its building.
It took over the old “Hussein Qazqali” mill building after stealing its machines and turned it into an automated bakery, and the entire automated bakery belonging to the former municipality and operated it for several years until all its machines were recently stolen and moved towards Rajo district, and about /30/ shops and invested them, and on the returning olive press The town association and the partnership owed about half of its profits, and on about /22/ thousand olive trees belonging to the absentees from the town, where it imposed a 50% royalty on its production in three seasons, and canceled all agencies in the last season and placed its hand on those properties, not even caring The expenses incurred by the owners during the two years.
Thousands of olive trees were unjustly cut down for wood, and they allow recruits to graze their livestock between olive fields and agricultural lands, without any of their owners being able to prevent them or file a complaint against them.
They excavated and bulldozed the "Barbush" hill in the north of the town, the "Kili Mousseh" hill in the south, and the upper shrine of "Af Giri", in search of their historical monuments and buried treasures and their theft.
The residents of the town were subjected to various violations and crimes, including killing, kidnapping, arbitrary arrests, torture, insults, material extortion, and others; Hundreds were subjected to arbitrary and arbitrary arrests, including elderly and women, accompanied by severe beatings, severe torture and insults. On the evening of 10/6/2018 AD, about 100 people were arrested and on 29/6/2020 about 110 people by “Al-Shamiya” after a raid Homes were searched, tampered with, their furniture was broken, doors were broken, money and cell phones were stolen, and they were released a few days later; Dozens were arrested within two days with the imposition of a curfew and an atmosphere of terror after the car bombing of one of its leaders on 12/18/2020; Except for the continuous individual and group arrests on charges of affiliation with the former Autonomous Administration, for different periods and with the imposition of financial fines; The Turkish occupation authorities have not yet revealed the fate of the young man, "Manan Primo bin Ibrahim - born in 1994 AD", despite the passage of more than four years since his arrest on 4/15/2018 near the village of "Kurzeliye" - south of Afrin during his return, and he was taken to al-Ra'i prison and hidden. Forcibly, as testimonies confirmed that he was severely tortured and his health deteriorated greatly.
As a result of the theft of some of the contents of the town’s mosque and the takeover of it by the sheikhs recruited, and the removal of any sheikh from the town’s residents – the only one in the area – belonging to the Alawite Islamic sect from its administration, most of the town’s residents do not go to the mosque, and the recruits also opened another mosque in one of the village houses and do not bury their dead in the town’s cemetery In addition, they opened educational courses within an active religious extremist movement in the region.
Among the townspeople, civilians were martyred because of the occupation. They are:
- Joan Mustafa bin Ahmed, 30 years old, on February 26, 2018, as a result of the Turkish bombing, while serving in the Internal Security Forces (Asayish).
Ali Qalander, 85, was shot with live bullets while he was grazing some sheep in the west of the town on 10/2/2019, shot by an armed young man from Ghouta.
- Mustafa Suleiman Hussein, 65 years old, Ali Muhammad Shabo, 66 years old, his wife Zulukh Hamid Hamadeh, 55 years old, their son Ali Shabo, 35 years old, his wife Alia Mustafa Shabo, 28 years old, and their two daughters, the child Nevin Shaabo, 9 years old; The six displaced people from the town were martyred on 7/31/2018, as a result of a landmine explosion in a small Suzuki cargo car that took them through smuggling routes from the city of Nubl to Aleppo.
= Arbitrary arrests:
Occupation authorities arrested:
- On May 17, 2022 AD, citizens "Saeed Naasan Arab / 52 years old, Seydou Muhammad Seido / 50 years old, Safar Mustafa / 63 years old" from the village of "Kunda" - Rajo, were killed by Turkish intelligence and the "Civil Police" militia On charges of participating in the night watch during the previous Autonomous Administration, they were released on 24/5/2022 AD, after imposing fines on them.
- On May 17, 2022 AD, the citizen "Fawaz Muhammad Haider, 39 years old", from the village of "Korka" - Mapta / Maabatli, was accused of having ties to the former Autonomous Administration. He was released after three days and a fine was imposed on him.
- On May 19, 2022 AD, the citizen "Ahmed Suleiman Bakr, nicknamed Farhad / 32 / years old", from the village of "Jagla Wastani" - Shih / Sheikh Al-Hadid, after raiding the village with seven armed cars, was taken to the district center, after his arrival He returned to the village three days after his return from Lebanon, the destination of his displacement, and he is still under arbitrary detention.
- On May 22, 2022 AD, the citizen "Hanan Muhammad Hashko (Sina) / 58 years" from the village of "Sheikh Muhammad Lee" - Rajo and its current mukhtar, was arrested by the Turkish intelligence and the militias of the "civil police", and his fate is still unknown.
- On May 24, 2022 AD, the citizen "Halima Musa Gulh / 58 years old - single" from the village of "Sheikh Muhammad Li / Kreia" - Rajo, was arrested by the Turkish intelligence and the militias of the "civil police", on charges of having ties with the former Autonomous Administration, Her fate is still unknown; Noting that she was subjected to arrest and severe torture at the beginning of the occupation in mid-2018, and she suffered from illness after her release at the time.
- Fifteen days ago, the citizen "Hassan Mahmoud Othman / 24 / years old" from the village of "Korzelei" - Sherwa, by the "security", shortly after his arrival to the city of Azaz with his wife and two children, while returning to Afrin from the point of his displacement through people smugglers who drove them to sleep in a hotel; Where the wife and two children were released to reach Afrin, and he is still in arbitrary detention.
= extermination of forests:
With the onset of the summer, as happened during the past four years under the occupation, fires erupting in natural and artificial forests abound in an unprecedented manner, unlike the six years of the rule of the previous Autonomous Administration and before decades of regime rule, in addition to the extensive cutting of various trees for wood and coal industry Trafficking in them, as these violations rise to the level of environmental extermination, as a crime committed systematically under the supervision and direction of the Turkish intelligence; According to agricultural experts, the rate of forest deterioration between burning and cutting exceeds 50%, and its total area is estimated at (natural / 18,500 / hectares + artificial / 21,000 / hectares = 39,500 hectares). He signed again:
- A fire was set in a forested forest in Mount Na'so, southeast of the town of "Kakhri" - Mabta / Ma'batli. The "Civil Defense in Afrin" confirmed that its teams put out huge fires that devoured forest trees with an estimated area of / 60 / dunums, Wednesday evening, 5/25/ 2022 AD, for a period of 11 hours.
The "Defense" also confirmed that a fire had been put out in a forest near the village of "Hallobi" - Shara / Sharan, on the same evening.
- And to put out a fire that broke out in agricultural lands in the village of "Miska" - Jindires, whose area is estimated at /2/ hectares, on Thursday 26/5/2022 AD.
- And to put out a fire that broke out in a forested forest near the village of "Jama / Juman" - Shara / Sharran, on the evening of May 26, 2022 AD.
= Other violations:
The leaders of the "Al-Hamzat Division" militias in the village of "Kimar" - Sherwa used to commit violations and crimes against its people, the last of which was on Wednesday 25/5/2022 AD, when the so-called "Rami Al-Batran Abu Jaber", the leader of the "Omar Al-Farouq Brigade - Al-Hamzat Brigade" militia, gathered "Dozens of village men with their tractors and made them work as forced labor for free in digging a trench around a camp for the band and removing the dirt, after he threatened and insulted them and severely beat some of them." Abdo Ahmed Yusef, Kalmaz Murad Muhammad” and injuring them, for failing to work the previous day; On Monday, May 23, 2022 AD, the so-called "Jamil Abu Zuhair", another leader of Hamzat, called on all the men of the village to leave all their jobs and come with their vehicles to the camp.
= Keferdelê Jêrîn village:
It follows the center of the city of Afrin and is 20 km away from it, consisting of about /75/ houses, and there were about /400/ original Kurdish residents, all of whom were displaced during the aggression on the region, and 55 families = 300 people returned, and / 20 families = 125 people/ of those recruited in them. During the aggression, a house was damaged and a microbus was burned.
The village is controlled by the militia "Al-Ghab Brigade - Al-Hamzat Division", which has taken the house of the citizen "Abdul Rahman Ibish" as a military headquarters, but they vacated it about three months ago, and had an armed barrier on the main road of Afrin-Jenderes, at the junction of the neighboring village of "Andreya" ; On June 21, 2021, the "Military Police" militia removed the brigade's barriers from the village and some neighboring villages, after relieving its leader, "Moataz Al-Abdullah", and expelling him with his members by the Hamzat.
The militia stole all the contents of about /40/ homes, including supplies, copper utensils, tools, electrical equipment, etc., a harvester belonging to "Haji Rasoul", an agricultural tractor by "Hanif Khalouta", a tractor, a taxi for "Ahmed Hajj Hanan", a tractor and a car recovered by their owner "Mahmoud Muhammad" Zeno after paying a royalty, and a Kia pickup car that was recovered by its owner, Mustafa Abdel Qader Khalil, after paying a royalty, and an electric generating set for the drinking water pumping station and all its equipment since the first day of the occupation; It also seized an olive press belonging to "Haji Rasoul" and forced him to partner with it; In addition, one of the recruits controls the village mosque and teaches the children the Qur’an and religion in exchange for wages he demands from their parents, in addition to forcing the parents to pay zakat to him.
A royalty of 350 olive oil (16 kg) was imposed in each olive season on the villagers, at a rate of 1-1/3 tanks for each family, except for the almost daily thefts of olive fruits and others.
/30/ olive trees belonging to Abdo Murad, /30/ pine trees in the “Gelî Meraqê” site, and /20/ other olive trees in the Andreya site of one of the villagers.
I dug and dug in the hill "Kaniya Gir" near the village junction, towards the neighboring village of "Korkan", with heavy machinery, in search of antiquities and buried treasures and stole them.
The remaining residents of the village were constantly subjected to various violations, such as harassment, arbitrary arrests, insults, material extortion, and others. The young man, "Hussein Alou bin Jamal, 18", was arrested and forcibly disappeared since mid-2018, and his fate is still unknown.
Ali Kara village - forced displacement, arbitrary arrests, severe beatings and killings, renting the land of the Ashouneh Dam, theft of lentils and grasshoppers
Societies with the names of "charitable, relief and religious" funded by Qatari, Kuwaiti, Palestinian, Turkish and others, participate in the implementation of Ankara's hostile policies against the Kurds in Syria, by bringing about a solid demographic change, by supporting and encouraging recruits from other Syrian regions and Syrian refugees in Turkey to settle in Afrin and others, and securing the ingredients for their permanent survival, most notably the ownership of a model home.
Below we document various violations and crimes:
= Arbitrary arrests:
The occupation authorities arrested:
- On 9/5/2022 AD, the citizen "Ramzi Seydou Bakr / 44 years old" from the village of "Kunda" - Rajo, was arrested by the Turkish intelligence and the "Civil Police" militia, after his return from Aleppo and the destination of his displacement, and despite his review of the headquarters of the "Legion" militia Al-Sham” in the town of Maidan Akbes, and he “settled” his situation and paid a ransom, and he is still under arbitrary detention.
- On May 10, 2022 AD, citizens “Abdo Yusef Oskilo / 60 years old, Ali Fawzi Oskilo / 23 years old” from the town of Mabta / Maabatli, on charges of participating in the night watch during the former Autonomous Administration, by the militias of the “Civil Police in Maabatali,” and took them to Afrin; To be released on May 12, 2022 AD, after imposing a fine on them.
- On May 14, 2022 AD, the citizens, "Hussein Haider Bilal / 58 years old, and Ali Ahmed Kashih / 30 years old", from the town of "Maidan Akbis" - Rajo, were arrested by Turkish intelligence and the "civil police", on charges of relationship with the administration former self, and are still in arbitrary detention; Whereas, "Kashie" had returned a month ago from Aleppo, the destination of his displacement to his town, and had reviewed the "Al-Sham Legion" militias, and they arrested him for several days and released him after paying a ransom.
- On May 15, 2022 AD, Idris Hanan Hamdoush, 46, from the village of Kamaruk, was arrested by the “Civil Police in Maabatli” militia, accused of participating in the night watch during the former Autonomous Administration, and was taken to Afrin; He was released on May 19, 2022 AD, after a fine was imposed on him.
- On May 15, 2022 AD, citizens “Sabri Mustafa Shasho / 60 years old, Abdul Rahman Bakr Ali 55 years old, Ahmed Muhammad Mustafa / 52 years old” from the people of “Darkir” village, on charges of participating in night watch during the Autonomous Administration the former, by the militias of the "Civil Police in Maabatli", and took them to Afrin; To release "Abd al-Rahman, Ahmed" on May 19, 2022 AD, after imposing fines on them, while "Sabri" remained in arbitrary detention, while other wanted persons were wanted for arrest.
- On May 17, 2022 AD, the citizens “Hussein Aboud Qaja / 36 years old, Sharfan Mustafa Kalou / 25 years old, Rashid Muhammad Abdo / 29 years old” from the village of “Korzelei” - Sherwa, and “Mahmoud Saleh Ramo / 55” A year-old, from the village of Qastal Kishk - Shara / Sharran, after his return from Aleppo and the destination of his displacement, by the Military Police in Afrin, accusing him of having relations with the former Autonomous Administration.
= chaos and disorder:
- On Saturday afternoon, May 14, 2022 AD, one of the religious extremists backed by the militants of the “Al-Sham Legion” prevented the holding of a wedding party for the son of the citizen “Arif Suleiman Jindo” in the center of the village of “Basofan” - Sherwa Yazidi, and threatened to destroy the party’s equipment and expose the groom’s relatives to arrest He bullied the audience, and shamed them with their clothes, music, and songs. The groom's family had to cancel the ceremony to avoid clashing with the recruits and the armed men.
Over the course of three days, 16-17-18/5/2022 AD, clashes took place between the militias of the "Military Police in Afrin" and gunmen from the "Al-Hamzat Division" militias, in the middle of the village of "Maratha", which led to the intimidation of civilians.
The Yazidis who remain in Afrin, despite their few, are subjected to double persecution, because they are Kurds first and not Muslims secondly, and they are a minority subject to extinction. The international community should pay attention to their tragic situation.
= The village of "Ali-Kara":
It belongs to Bulbul sub-district and is 5 km away from its center. It consisted of about 80 houses, and there were about 500 original Kurdish residents, all of whom were displaced during the aggression on the area except for a few men who were arrested immediately after the invasion of the village, and about 60 families returned from them. = 200 people/ and the rest were forcibly displaced, and /8 families = 30 people/ of those recruited were settled there.
The village is controlled by the "Al-Hamzat Division" militia, and shortly after their invasion of the village, they stole supplies, olive oil, copper pots, gas cylinders, tools, electrical equipment, etc., and all the contents of about /20/ homes they seized, an electric generating set (amperes) belonging to "Khalil Sheikh", and a car Mazda pickup for the late “Ali Mustafa Kilo”, and / 3 / agricultural tractors that were restored by their owners after paying royalties, and the main cable feeding the landline phone network, and all the contents of the poultry breeding facility for “Wahid Hussein Jabo” and its tensioning roof, and part of the contents of three Other poultry houses, and the four are currently out of service.
It seized /600/ olive trees belonging to the children of the late "Hamza Aliko" and cut down some of them, and imposes a royalty of 50% on the production of olive seasons for the property of the absentees and 10% on the production of the property of those present.
It cut down forest trees in the mountains surrounding the village, especially within the shrine of "Sheikh Hamza", including perennial trees such as Rumi oaks.
The remaining residents of the village were subjected to various types of violations, including kidnapping, arbitrary arrests, torture, insults, material extortion and others. Dozens were arrested for different periods with the imposition of ransoms and financial royalties, among them ten men - most of them elderly - who did not leave the village during the war and were arrested on 1/ 2/2018 AD, they were taken to Al-Ra’i prison and forcibly disappeared for a month and a half until their release, as well as the two citizens, “Ramadan Saeed Muhammad / 28 years old, and Muhammad Anwar Muhammad / 28 years old”, who were arrested in the beginning of November 2021 AD by the first checkpoint of the “Military Police”. In the Jarablus region, upon their return with their wives from the al-Shahba region - north of Aleppo, the destination of displacement, through the smuggling routes, the two wives were released at the time to go to Afrin, while the two remain forcibly detained until now.
As part of the active religious movement in the area, under the direct supervision of the Turkish Religious Endowment, a new mosque was built in the village.
= Arbitrary arrests:
The occupation authorities arrested:
- On 7/5/2022 AD, the citizen “Aref Ibrahim Hanan / 33 years old”, from the town of “Baadina” and residing in the city of Afrin, was attacked by the armed security checkpoint at the eastern entrance to Afrin, while returning from his place of work with a stone saw, on charges of having relations with The former Autonomous Administration, and he was released on 10/5/2022 AD, after imposing a fine of 3500 Turkish liras on him.
- On May 8, 2022 AD, citizens: Akram Qader bin Hussein, 40 years old, Shawkat Ali bin Rifaat, 70 years old, Walid Ahmed bin Ahmed, 30 years old, and Mustafa Qara Muhammad bin Hanan, 80 years old, from the people of the village. "Darkir" - Mabta/Maabatli, on charges of participating in the night watch during the previous Autonomous Administration, by the militia of the "Civil Police in Maabatli", and they were taken to Afrin, to be released on Thursday 12/5/2022 AD, after imposing fines on them.
= chaos and disorder:
- Local sources reported that the elements of "Mohammed Al-Jassem Abu Amsha", the leader of the "Sultan Suleiman Shah Division" militia, severely beat the so-called "Brigadier Abdul Moneim Naasan" - appointed "commander of the Sheikh Al-Hadid district" by the Azm Chamber on 1/3/ 2022 AD on the background of the decision of the Sheikhs Committee to exile and insult Abu Amsha; And without implementing that decision against Abu Amsha and some members of his gang.
- On Friday morning, May 13, 2022 AD, the body of a murdered man was found, dumped next to the main road near the junction of the village of "Hazmala" - Rajo, the genitals had been cut off and the face was disfigured; And local media confirmed that it belonged to "Mahmoud Rahal", a member of the "Al-Majd Corps" militia.
= Other violations:
- On May 10, 2022 AD, two brothers brought from the countryside of Homs assaulted the Kurdish citizen, "Mohammed Seido Muhammad (Kaleh) / 45 / year old" from the village of "Ashouneh" - Bulbul, inside his grocery, because he objected to grazing their cows among a vineyard of returning grapes. He, who was devouring the grape leaves that is his source of livelihood, was wounded in the head as a result of being hit with sticks by the assailants.
The leaders of the “Sultan Murad Division” militia leased about 80 dunams and grape vineyards, each dunum for $35/, on the land of “Ashouneh Dam” - Bulbul, which is flooded in the winter and relatively dry in the spring, to whoever cultivates it, even if it was its original owner. , especially since it belonged to the citizens of the villages of “Zafnak, Ashouneh, Dik, Kreh, Kela” surrounding the dam site, four years ago, on the pretext that the land was owned by the state, although it allowed the people to cultivate it without wages.
- On 9/5/2022 AD, a group of militias of the "Sultan Suleiman Shah-Amshat Division" in the town of "Kakhri" - Mabta / Ma'batli assaulted the child "Alan Muhammad Hasso, 11 years old", with severe beatings, on the pretext that he looks at the women of the recruits. The child was taken to a hospital in Afrin for treatment of his injuries.
- In the village of Maratha, herds of livestock are escaped by the recruits to graze between the olive fields and agricultural lands and in Hakorat houses as well, and they steal piles of lentils and the harvested jellaba from the fields to feed them to their livestock, without the people being able to prevent them or complain against them, because of the protection of the militants of the "Al-Hamzat Division". for them.
- In the village of "Tal Salur" - Jindires and its surroundings as well, the newly recruited livestock breeders steal piles of harvested lentils and other fields to feed them to their livestock.
= Çema Village:
It belongs to Shara / Sharran district and is 3 / km away from its center. It consisted of about / 170 / houses, and there were about / 1100 / original Kurdish inhabitants, all of whom were displaced during the aggression against the area and about / 85 families = 275 people / and the rest returned from them They were forcibly displaced, and about /70 families = 425 people/ of the recruits were settled there and in some tents.
As a result of the bombing of the Turkish forces and militias during the war, 18 houses were destroyed for "Abdo Musa Khalil, Shukri Musa Khalil, Nabhan Shukri Khalil, Hanan Muhammad Khalil, Nabi Nuri Arif, Horik Othman, Sabri Yassin Khalil, Muhammad Rashid Seido, Kamiran Rashid Ibrahim, Imad Rashid Ibrahim, Hanan Muhammad Rashid, Ibrahim Alo, Mustafa Ibrahim, Bashir Sabri Muhammad, Muhammad Muhammad Alo, Anwar Muhammad, Hassan Ali Zeno, Abdo Hammou"; And / 16 / homes were damaged by “Uriah Ibrahim, Hassan Mamo, Zakaria Ibrahim, Islam Hajj Sharif, Nasu Ibrahim, Khalil Hajj Yassin, Ibrahim Maamo, Muhammad Mamo, Nuri Khalil Ibrahim, Refaat Khalil, Mustafa Muhammad, Muhammad Abboud, Jamal Na`so Khalil, Rashid Ibrahim, Mohamed Seydou, Abdullah Sharif - five-storey building.
At first, the militias of the "Sultan Murad Division and the Hamzat Division" controlled the village. Later, the militias of the "Malekshah Division" remained in control of the village, which consisted of /4/ houses belonging to "Khalid Ibrahim, Haider Majid, Rashid Nasu Khalil, Villa Manan Muhammad Rashid" as military headquarters. ; All the contents of the houses, shops and sewing workshops were stolen, including supplies, copper utensils, gas cylinders, tools, electrical equipment, sewing machines, fabrics, etc., and all the machines of my press "Khalil Hajj Yassin with its building damaged by the bombing, Manan Rashid", which were recovered by paying large sums of money, as well as agricultural tractors and motorcycles. And electric generating sets, some of which were restored after paying royalties from their owners, a transformer, cables and some poles of the public electricity network, and cables and poles of the landline telephone network.
And it seized many properties (olive fields and others), including for “Abdullah Othman, Horik Othman, Youssef Othman, Manan Ismail Ibrahim, Qadri Ibrahim, the Hamo family”, and some of them were restored under agencies for those close to them and in return for imposing a 50% royalty on production, in addition to imposing 10% royalty on the production of the seasons of those present.
Most of the forests in the vicinity of the village were cut down for the purpose of logging and making and trading in charcoal, including an artificial coniferous forest east of the village, which was planted in the eighties of the last century with an approximate area of /120/ hectares, as Tire is on three different dates (February 2018 AD - before the occupation, September 2019 AD, October The first 2020 AD) clearly shows that genocide.
They dug and excavated archaeological sites, including the site of "Khrabat Simon", and buried treasures were stolen from them.
The residents of the village were subjected to various types of violations and crimes, including killing, kidnapping, arbitrary arrests, torture, insults, material extortion and others. The citizen "Abdul Qader Manan Hamo / 60 years" was martyred as a result of the bombing near his house on January 23, 2018, and dozens of them were arrested on charges of relationship With the previous self-administration for different periods and the imposition of ransoms and financial fines.
= settlement villages:
The White Hands Association - Turkey has completed the construction of a model settlement village consisting of /250/ houses, with infrastructure, a mosque, a school and others, on the land of “Têt” in a site in “Jabal Hajj Muhammad” west of “Jabal Khorshid”, northwest of the town of “Kafr Safra”. - Jindires, which is under the control of the militias of the "Samarkand Brigade", and families brought from the Levant, most of whom were Palestinians from Damascus, settled there.
A merchant from the town of "Qebtan al-Jabal" - west of Aleppo also bought an olive field with an area of 2.5 hectares, comprising 175 trees belonging to the citizen "Salah Rashid Mahmoud" from the town's residents, at a price of 350 dollars per tree, located east of the town at a site "" Korta Bûd", with the intention of building a settlement housing complex in it.
Likewise, a recruiter descended from the town of Anjara - west of Aleppo, purchased an olive field containing /150/ trees belonging to "Mohammed Mahmoud bin Hussein Daraj" from the townspeople, located on the main road between Jindires and Kafr Safra, and uprooted the trees, replaced the soil and sorted the land into Lecturer with intent to build another settlement housing complex.
It is noteworthy that the White Hands Association works in cooperation with other associations (Living in Dignity Association - Palestine 48, Sheikh Abdullah Al-Nouri Charitable Association - State of Kuwait, International Association for Development and Development (Tanmia) - State of Kuwait), and completed the construction of the "Basma settlement" village south of the village. Shadera - Sherwa, which was opened in two phases, the first on 10/4/2021 AD and comprising /96/ apartments, and the second on 3/22/2022 AD, comprising / 125/ apartments.
= Arbitrary arrests:
On 3/5/2022 AD, the citizen “Arin Fakhri Muslim”, 33 years old, from the village of “Shetka” - Mabta / Maabatli, was arrested by the military security checkpoint at the entrance to Mahmudiya - Afrin, on charges of having ties with the former Autonomous Administration, and it is still unknown. destiny.
On April 28, 2022 AD, the occupation authorities released the citizen “Muhammad Waqfi Murad”, 33 years old, from the town of “Kafr Safra” - Jindires, from Maratha prison, who was arrested on 9/6/2021 AD shortly after his return from Aleppo before Militia of the "Military Police", accused of having ties with the former Autonomous Administration, he was subjected to torture, imprisonment and a fine.
= chaos and disorder:
- On the evening of Saturday 30/4/2022 AD, a group of members of the “Al-Jabha al-Shamiya” militia killed the young man, “Mohamed Khalil Turki, 35,” one of those recruited to the village of “Arab Weran” - Shara / Sharaan, and stole his flock of sheep, which he was grazing in. near the village junction, after he refused to give her a sheep as a tribute.
- On 2/5/2022 AD, the first day of Eid al-Fitr, clashes took place between two groups of the "Binaa and Liberation Movement" and "Nour al-Din al-Zanki" militias on Street /16/ - next to the vegetable market in the center of Jenderes city, due to a quarrel between armed children from both sides. led to the intimidation of civilians.
- On the night of 2/5/2022 AD, the armed checkpoint / Al-Masara checkpoint of the "Suqur Al-Shamal Brigade" militia at the junction of the villages of "Biliye and Qizilbash" - Bulbul fired bullets at a passing car. During the day, violent clashes with light and medium weapons and mortars between the armed men of the clan and that militia, which led to the interruption of the Maidanki-Bulbul road, the killing of a member of the brigade, the wounding of two others, and property damage, amid intimidation of the people and civilians and the tense situation in the district.
- On 5/5/2022 AD, clashes took place between two groups of the militias of the "Revolution Movement" and "Al-Hamzat Division" on the road to the village of "Tal Hamo" - Jindires, against the background of the theft of a sum of money from a money changer in the neighboring village of "Farieh", which is under the control of Hamzat.
= The evacuation of two military bases:
Between the last two months of March and April, the Turkish intelligence and forces evacuated two bases in Afrin, which they had established at the beginning of the occupation in the spring of 2018:
The first was in the “Sirta” site, south of the town of “Kakhri”-Mabta/Maabatli, estimated at an area of 1.5 hectares, as it led to the uprooting and deterioration of about two thousand olive trees within an area of 17 hectares, leaving them out of service and harvesting crops, as well as cutting the proportion of Great woodland surrounding the site.
- The second was in the village of "Talf", where 15 houses in the middle of the village were dispossessed, and after evacuating it, the "Al-Hamzat Division" militias brought families close to them from the "Al-Mawali clan" and settled them there, without handing them over to their owners, despite their presence in the village and in the city of Afrin. ; Especially since the village consisted of about /50 houses = 300 people/, only 18 families = 60 people/ were able to stay in it, and about /70 families = 425 people/ of those who were recruited in it and in tents set up near it, who raise livestock and graze, were settled. They are unjustly carried out during the day within olive fields and agricultural lands, without anyone being able to prevent them or complain against them.
= Other violations:
- On 04/28/2022 AD, in the Ashrafieh neighborhood of Afrin, gunmen from the “Syrian Front” militia and a grocery store owner attacked the citizen Ziad Hanan Khalil, 53 years old, and his son from the village of “Khraba Shara” and a relative of the people of the village of “Habbo” After he parked his service car in front of his mother's house, opposite the grocery store, where the victim was taken to a hospital to treat his injuries.
- An armed group of "Ahrar al-Sham" militias recently attacked the citizen "Muhammad Nuri Mahmoud" and his brother "Barzani" from the town of "Kafr Safra" - Jindires, with severe beatings and shooting between their legs. Muhammad was wounded while he was being treated in a hospital. In Afrin, after they objected to the passage of a tractor of gunmen carrying firewood in an olive field belonging to them near the neighboring village of "Kura", because it was planted with olive saplings.
- Recently, the "Nour al-Din Zengi" militia detained the citizen "Jamil Naasan" and his son, "Mohammed", from the village of Ramadieh-Jenderes, at its Sharia Court, because of his demand to vacate the son's house, which was seized by one of its members four years ago, and it subjugated them To investigate and beat “Mohammed”, so I decided to hand over the house to its owner and “compensate” the occupant with “500” dollars on the pretext of repairing it, even though he lived in it without wages, but in order to continue the injustice, I decided to seize / 300/ olive trees belonging to the displaced “Othman sleepy” and he was managing it His brother "Jamil Naasan" under legal power of attorney.
- We received a picture of Mount Ise - Êsê / the land of Mishmsha - the town of Kafr Safra, showing the complete cutting of its forested forest, by the militias of the "Samarkand Brigade" for the purpose of logging and the manufacture and trade of coal.
- Referring to two photos taken by Google Earth in (September 2017 before the occupation, February 2021 AD after the occupation) of the archaeological hill of Jindires, we clearly notice the extent of the attack and vandalism that affected it. Its antiquities and buried treasures, as its total area is about 15 hectares, 7 hectares of it were bulldozed and a concrete wall was built around the base.
The responsibility of the international community for the fate of the Syrian people is at stake, as it is required to stop Turkey from implementing its suspicious plans towards the Kurdish regions and Syria in general, especially since President Erdogan is playing the Syrian refugee card in terms of his domestic and foreign policies alike.
Amra village - looting, abuse and life sentences, the death of an elderly person, the arrest of a sick woman, fighting, thefts
No matter how Turkey pushed the Syrian militias affiliated with the Syrian-Brotherhood coalition to make mercenaries and the outbreak of internal and external wars, and made them tools for implementing hostile policies and practices against the presence of the Kurds in Syria and their role, it preferred each other over the other, and kept differences and conflicts between them, so that their areas of expansion in the north of Syria became a permissible arena. For various violations and crimes, including:
= The village of "Amra- Imera":
It belongs to Rajo district, 9 km away from its center, consisting of about /150/ houses, and there were about a thousand original Kurdish inhabitants, all of whom were displaced during the aggression on the region, and about 100 families = 350 people returned from them, and the rest were forcibly displaced, And 15 families = 100 people/ of the recruits were settled there. Six houses were partially damaged by the bombing.
The militia of the "Al-Muntasir Billah - Turkmen Division", led by the so-called "Firas Pasha", who hails from Aleppo, is controlling the village. It seizes about 50 houses and their contents, and takes the homes of the displaced, "Ibrahim Hassan Arab, Ali Ahmed Kalkawi" as military headquarters, It transformed the house of the displaced "Izzat Haidar" into a mosque, and transformed three shops of the citizen "Hussein Ahmed Hanan" into a headquarters for the village's entrance barrier.
Shortly after the invasion of the village, most of the contents of the returnees’ homes were stolen, including supplies, copper utensils, gas cylinders, tools, electrical equipment, etc., and about /8/ thousand cans of olive oil (16 kg net), and the contents of four grocery stores for “Jakar Shukri Jaafar, along with 300/ cans of oil, Izzat Haider Jaafar, Lausanne Refaat Kalkawi, Muhammad Hamid Omar”, and / 15 / electric generating set, and / 6 / cars (van - Ahmed Shukri Jaafar, Opel taxi - Nizar Muhammad Maho, Mazda pickup - Masoud Hamid Bilal, pickup New Hyundai - Ramzi sleepy, Jeep Range Rover - Khushnaf Ramzi sleepy, Jeep Range Rover - Taher Mustafa Kalkawi), and /6/ agricultural tractors with their accessories for "Mohammed Ibish Maho, Hanif Maho, Imad Aziz, Ahmed Maho Jaafar, Hassan Arab Kalkawi" Ramzi sleepy”, about /20/ motorbikes, and all the contents of the school, and the burning of what was in it of wood, a transformer, cables, some poles of the public electricity network, and drinking water meters; As well as about /400/ head of livestock, most of which are goats, in front of the eyes of their owners and without any consideration or consideration for the women's pleas.
It seized about 12 thousand olive trees, including (/800/ for the displaced Jamil Ali Musa, /2000/ for the late Muhammad Ibish Maho, /3,000/ for the displaced Ibrahim Hassan Arab, /600/ for the displaced, Adnan Muhammad Hanan, 1500/ for “Hamid” Bilal” was divided equally in production despite his presence in the village on the pretext that his children work with the Democratic Union Party, and on 3/ha of land for the displaced “Ibrahim Hassan Kalkawi”; In addition to imposing a 50% royalty on the seasons of the absentees' properties and -10-20%/ on the seasons of the absentees' properties.
It unjustly cut down thousands of olive trees and a large percentage of the natural forests surrounding the village, and perennial oak trees in Mount Docaqê, for firewood and trade.
With the participation of the Turkish forces, they destroyed an ancient castle in the plains of the village and excavated its site with heavy machinery, as well as digging and bulldozing the site of the land of "Kanika" near the well of "Daf Fah Rah - Big Mouth" north of the village and excavated its caves, in search of antiquities and buried treasures and their theft.
The villagers were subjected to various types of violations and crimes, including murder, kidnapping, arbitrary arrests, torture, insults, material extortion and others, and cases of assault on some women; The civilian "Mohammed Rashid Kalkawi, 55 years old", and his daughter Golestan's son, the child "Mohammed Luqman Mouloud 12 years old - Qadah village" were martyred during their return to the village in mid-March 2018, near the junction of the village of "Amara" - Mabta / Maabatli, as a result of The Turkish bombing, where we were buried with other martyrs in a cemetery behind the Afrin University building inside the city, that cemetery that the occupation authorities destroyed in mid-July 2021 AD and the bodies were recovered from it; More than a hundred people, including women, were arrested on charges of affiliation with the former Autonomous Administration and others were fabricated. They were tried for various terms, fines and financial ransom. Some of them were forcibly disappeared, especially 11 of them were transferred to Turkey to be judged on December 12, 2019 against 7 of them. Life imprisonment and 4 / 12 years in prison, and they are now in Yıldag Prison - Hatay. The young man, "Shiyar Aziz Naasan" was arrested in Turkey in September 2018 and was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison, while "Khoshnav Ramzi Naasan" was arrested 33 A year-old father of three daughters” in March 2018, and he was forcibly hidden in Al-Ra’i prison and subjected to severe torture and harsh conditions. He was released after a year, but the militias of “Al-Muntasir Billah” kidnapped him again after his arrival in the village hours, and it had not been two days since the death of his mother, so he was absent and is still unknown destiny.
The leaders of “Al-Muntasir Billah” are constantly chasing the people and trying to eavesdrop on their phone calls and conversations with their clients standing behind doors and walls, which prompted the people to refrain from any talk about violations and crimes and the heinous actions of the militias.
Within the framework of the militant Islamic movement active in the area, an institute for memorizing the Qur'an was opened and religious lessons were given in the village school.
An elderly person died of his injuries:
On the evening of Saturday 23/4/2022 AD, the body of the elderly “Bayram Ma’mo (Kubba) - Abu Abdo / 80 years old” was handed over to his family by the “Military Hospital” in Afrin, who died of bullet wounds as a result of violent clashes that took place between two groups of The militias of the "Al-Hamzat Division and the Sham Legion" in the town of Bulbul on the evening of 7/4/2022 AD, and he was buried in the cemetery of his original village "Abla" in the "Bulbul" district.
= Enforced disappearance and arbitrary arrests:
- On 9/2/2022 AD, the citizen "Selda Kamal Sheikho / 27 years old - mother of five children, sick" from the people of the village of "Maska" - Rajo, left the town of Tal Rifaat north of Aleppo - the destination of her displacement, to go to Manbij and then the Jarabulus area Through smuggling routes for $2,500/, in order to cross into Turkey and reach her mother, who resides in the Turkish city of Islahiye, but contact with her was cut off on the evening of 10/2/2022 AD after the last call with her in Jarabulus, and she was forcibly hidden and her family was subjected to material extortion, until They recently learned that she is with the "Military Police in Jarablus" and is being detained on charges of having ties to the former Autonomous Administration.
The occupation authorities also arrested:
- Two weeks ago, the citizens, "Adnan Bakr and his two sons Amer and Muhammed", from the village of "Baflor" - Jindires, were arrested by the Turkish security forces in the city of Istanbul to which they were displaced 7 years ago, without being able to know the charges against them.
- Two weeks ago, the citizens “Ahmed Muhammad Atash / 30 years old” and his brother’s son “Muhammad Khalil Atesh / 25 years old” from the village of “Shankeleh” after their return from Qamishli - the destination of displacement, and “Ali Ahmed Kashi / 27 years” from The people of the town of "Midan Akbes" after returning from the al-Shahba area - north of Aleppo, and upon their review of the police headquarters in Afrin in response to a request to "settlement their situation".
- A week ago, the citizen "Maryam Haji Hasik, 40 years old", from the city of Jindires, was arrested by the Turkish security forces in the city of Izmir, to which she migrated 9 years ago, on charges of having ties with the Democratic Union Party (PYD).
- A week ago, the citizen "Fares Mustafa Hamza" from the village of "Baflor" - Jindires, was arrested by the city's entrance checkpoint, and he was released after imposing a fine on him.
= chaos and disorder:
As a result of the chaos of carrying arms between militias and recruits in general, and disputes and disputes over looted and spheres of influence, and sometimes for trivial reasons, there are armed clashes and random shootings that lead to intimidation of civilians and deaths and injuries, among which we mention:
- On the night of Tuesday/Wednesday April 27, 2022 AD, on the Afrin-Trenda road, the so-called "Abdul Hai - Abu Hudhaifa", one of the leaders of the "Al-Hamzat Division" militia, was targeted by gunmen riding a motorcycle, and he died in the morning of his wounds.
During the day, the car of a leader of the "Al-Rahman Legion" militia was detonated on Al-Serfees Street in the Ashrafieh neighborhood - Afrin with an explosive device, wounding two people, according to the "Civil Defense in Afrin".
- On 28/4/2022 AD, clashes took place between two groups of recruits residing in a camp near the village of “Qatma” - Shara / Sharran, which resulted in the injury of about 25 people with varying injuries. They were taken to the National Hospital in Azaz, and as a result of the death of One of them, clashes renewed the next day and some tents were burned by the dead people's relatives.
= Other violations:
- Armed men recently stole the batteries of three agricultural tractors belonging to "Gilgil Hanan Hamo - Gilgil, Mustafa Muhammad Suleiman, Muhammad Ali Khalil Hamo" in the village of "Kobkeh" - Mabta / Maabatli, in addition to the continuous thefts of copper pots and other homes of its residents and from the village of "" Colica" is also nearby.
In addition, one of the settlers who brought the house of one of the displaced people from the village of "Kolika" prevented his brother, the citizen "Mohammed Nour Mustafa" from starting to build a house for him on a report he owned next to the house. The "Northern Brigade" militia, which responded to the victim's complaint.
- On 4/29/2022 AD, the "Civil Defense in Afrin" confirmed that its teams had put out a fire that had been set in a forest in the vicinity of the village of "Dirwan" - Shara / Sharan, and through the published photo it was clear that trees had been cut down previously.
Explanation of the attached pictures
A fire broke out in a forest in the "Nasu" mountain, southeast of the town of "Kakhri" - Mabta/Maabatli.
The village of "Kfardali Tahtani" - Afrin.
Effects of the bombing of “Jama” village during the aggression on the area, first quarter of 2018.
A forested forest east of the village of Jama - Shara/Sharran, with different dates, Google Earth.
- Martyr Abdel Qader Manan Hammou
The typical settlement village of Têt/Jabal Hajj Muhammad, west of the town of Kafr Safra.
A settlement housing complex in the “Kurta Bud” site, the town of Kafr Safra.
The “Sirta” site, south of the town of “Kakri” - Mapta / Maabatli, the Turkish military base that was evacuated in March-April 2022 AD.
Archaeological Tell Jindires before and after the occupation (September 2017, February 2021).
The complete cutting of the forest of Mount “êsê” / the land of Mishmsha - the town of Kafr Safra.
- The so-called Faris Pasha, leader of the militia “Al-Muntasir Billah Division” with Davlat Bahtajali, leader of the MHP-Turkish nationalist movement.
Detainees and kidnappers of the village of “Amra” in Turkey.
The martyrs “Mohammed Rashid Kalkawi, Muhammad Luqman Mouloud.”
The Amra village school, which was turned into an institute for memorizing the Qur’an.
The martyr “Bayram Mamo”.
The detainee, Selda Kamal Sheikho.
A fire in a forested forest in the vicinity of the village of “Dirwan”, 29/4/2022 AD.
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Report information: Media Office of the Kurdish Democratic Unity Party in Syria
