Turkey’s Discriminatory Repatriation of Syrians Serves its Interests – SDC 
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – Riyad Dirar, co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), said on Sunday that the repatriation of the Syrian refugees in Turkey is a discriminatory process carried out by Turkey to serve its interests.
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced a new plan on May 3 to settle one million Syrian refugees in areas controlled by Turkey and the Turkish-backed Syrian armed opposition factions in northern Syria, by building houses and public facilities with Qatari and Kuwaiti funding.
The demographic change that Turkey previously implemented in the Afrin region – by displacing its Kurdish population – and now wants to implement it in other regions “will create social problems that mainly Syrians will pay for,” Dirar added to North Press.
Dirar considered the demographic change ideology that Turkey has adopted in the areas under its control to be in line with what the Syrian government would always call a “homogeneous society,” which caused the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Syrians from their cities and regions.
He noted that Turkey was and is still blackmailing Europe by opening the borders and encouraging refugees to go there in case the bloc refused to meet its demands in the political issues that serve Ankara’s interests.
Turkey “has never dealt with the issue of the Syrian refugees who live on its lands as a humanitarian issue, as it exploited it from the first day of the Syrian war to serve its interests, whether inside or outside Syrian territory,” Dirar noted.