Turkey’s plan to resettle Syrians has negative impacts –Future Syria Party
Raqqa, Syria (North Press) – The General Secretary of the Future Syria Party said on Thursday that the Turkish scheme to resettle Syrian refugees in settlement build by Turkey on Syrian soil will lead to sectarian and national in-fighting between the Syrian people.
Siham Dawood, Secretary General of Future Syria Party, affirmed that Turkey’s project will have disastrous impacts on the region.
Official and public resentment spread among residents over the Turkish project to resettle about 1.5 million Syrian refugees in areas, whose original inhabitant fled.
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on May 3 as saying, “we are preparing a new project for the voluntary return of one million Syrian brothers who are in our country as guests.”
This scheme threats the demography of the region and will affect it, according to Dawood.
“By implementing the demographic change policy in the region, Turkey shows its real face clearly,” Dawood added.
The Turkish intention to demographically change the region has gradually become clear since the Turkish intervention in Syria, according to Dawood.
Turkey’s goals to fulfill the demographic change in the region was clearly shown in “the direct occupation of Afrin, Ras al-Ain and Tel Abyad or the indirect one in areas held by Turkey with the support of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) mercenaries,” the Secretary General added.
Though Syrian residents in different areas and the Syrian refugees in Turkey expressed contempt for the project of settlements and deporting Syrians, the Syrian government has not made any comment.
She believes that Turkey’s intervention in Syria was not to help the people but to serve its own interests and agendas in the Middle East and Syria.
Dawood called on all human rights organizations, the UN and EU “to work for deterring and stopping such a scheme.”
Otherwise, the project will cause “sectarian and national in-fighting between communities of the Syrian people,” she noted.