Turkish state keeps committing crimes against humanity in Afrin
The Turkish state keeps committing crimes against humanity in the occupied Afrin. In the first six months of 2023, at least 12 civilians were killed and at least 173 others were kidnapped in Afrin.
News Center- The Turkish state has been openly committing crimes against humanity in the occupied Afrin.
The Afrin Human Rights Organization has released a report revealing that the Turkish state and its mercenaries keep killing and kidnapping civilians in Afrin and doing everything to change the demographic structure of Afrin.
The number of the crimes committed in Afrin Canton by the Turkish Intelligence Organization (MIT) and the mercenaries of the Turkish state increases day by day. In the first six months of 2023, the Turkish forces and its mercenaries killed 12 people, including two women, and four members of a family killed on the eve of Newroz (March 20) while lighting the Newroz flame in front of their house in Janders district, according to the report.
The report said that at least 173 people, including 20 women, were kidnapped under false pretexts by the Turkish forces and its mercenaries to demand a ransom in order to release them. According to local sources, the mercenaries of the Turkish state raped two girls aged 10 and 14 in less than a week in the occupied Afrin.
They cut down trees
The invaders kept cutting down trees in Afrin in the first six months of 2023. 15,500 trees (olives, walnuts, almonds, fruits) were cut down, more than 1,000 trees were uprooted and more than 70 hectares of agricultural land was burned down in Afrin by the Turkish forces and its mercenaries, according to the report.
On January 4, 2023, the Turkish state opened a settlement named “Ajnadayn Palestine” in Janders district of Afrin after it was funded by the Palestinian “Soldiers of Islam” organization. 40 apartments were handed over to the mercenary families of “Ahrar al-Sham.”
The settlement was built between the villages of Hamilka and Rifaatiya, east of Janders. On February 12, Qatar Charity announced the start of the “City of Dignity” settlement project in Janders district, claiming that the settlement would be built for the survivors of the February 6 earthquake. After the construction of the settlement, the families of mercenaries will live in it. A settlement called “Qatari Village 2” was opened in the Shadira village of Afrin’s Sherawa.