{"id":107562,"date":"2023-11-14T12:19:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T12:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=107562"},"modified":"2023-11-14T12:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T12:19:42","slug":"turkey-continues-building-settlements-in-syrias-occupied-afrin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/107562\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey continues building settlements in Syria’s occupied Afrin<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

AFRIN, Syria (North Press) \u2013<\/strong>A local association, in coordination with Turkey, finished in mid-October  building a new settlement in a forest in al-Mahmoudiyah neighborhood in the city of Afrin, northwestern Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In late October, local organizations, with Saudi support, finished the construction of six new settlements near the village of Ghazawiyah in the countryside of Afrin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sources told North Press that the “White Hands” organization, with support believed to be from Qatar and with Turkish coordination, finished building 75 residential houses in the southwestern part of the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new settlement was built in a spaces that was cultivated with pine trees that overlooked Afrin, after the Turkish-backed opposition factions, aka as the Syrian National Army (SNA), took over the city in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes as Turkey continues to deport tens of thousands of Syrians from its territories and resettles them in these settlements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey\u2019s policy of demographic change has resulted in the displacement of 90 percent of the region\u2019s original Kurdish inhabitants, who have been replaced by Syrians from different areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Mo’ayed al-Sheikh<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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