Turkish-backed organizations build new settlement in Syria’s Afrin
AFRIN, Syria (North Press) – Local organizations, receiving support from Turkey and Palestinian associations, continue to build settlements in Afrin Region, northwestern Syria.
The new settlement, composed of about 100 apartments, is expected to be ready after a few months. People from Rif Dimashq and Homs governorates are to be settled there.
Turkey has already built 10 settlements in Jabal al-Ahlam (al-Ahlam Mountain) in the south of Afrin.
Afrin has been under the occupation of the Turkish forces and their affiliated armed opposition factions, aka the Syrian National Army (SNA), since March 2018 following the so-called “Olive Branch” military operation to push away the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) under the pretext of protecting “Turkish national security.”
Since then, they have constructed multiple settlements and settled thousands of people from other areas in the houses of the forcibly displaced Kurdish inhabitants in Afrin.
In 2023, Turkey constructed 28 settlements in Afrin, with the support of Kuwaiti, Qatari, Saudi, Palestinian, and Turkish organizations, according to the Monitoring and Documentation Department of North Press.