Syria’s Afrin is golden page in history: politician
ERBIL, KRG, Iraq (North Press) – On Thursday, former member of Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the parliament of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq (KRG) Ali Halo said that Syria’s Afrin “has recorded golden pages in Kurdish and international history.”
On this day three years ago, Turkish forces and their associated armed opposition groups controlled Afrin.
“The key to preserving the gains and freedom is unity,” Halo told North Press.
Halo visited Afrin in early March 2018, heading a parliament delegation that included other members of Kurdish parties in KRG parliament, according to Halo.
“I thought I would visit a destroyed and depressed city, but I was surprised by ululation and great resistance,” he added.
“Thousands of people received us with ululation…the city was perfumed with resistance amid the rise of patriotic slogans,” he pointed out.
Halo highlighted what he described “incomparable resistance” and said, “if we review the history and the wars that the world witnessed like Vietnam and Stalingrad, we see that the resisting party was always supported by at least one power.”
However, Afrin was “alone in facing the occupation amid international community’s silence,” he referred.
“Afrin would not have fallen into the hands of the occupation had it not been for the failure of the world, given that it faced the strongest power in NATO,” he explained.
He hoped that “Kurdish unity will be the key to liberate the occupied lands, and will be a tool to keep what is left of our land and gains.”
He stressed that “many lands have been occupied, but in the end the land returns to its indigenous people.”