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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Afrin: Kurdish population more than halved since 2018 offensive, says rights group
2020-04-23
[Rudaw] Since the Ottoman Turkish invasion of January 2018, the Kurdish population of Afrin, northwest Syria, has fallen by more than 60 percent, according to a local rights group.

Thousands of indigenous Kurds were forced to flee the area when Ottoman Turkish forces and their Syrian militia proxies launched Operation Olive Branch on January 20, 2018. By the time Ankara had seized control of Afrin city from the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) on March 24, tens of thousands of Kurds had fled, many of them to Kurdish-controlled areas in northeast Syria. Families displaced by regime offensives to the south were resettled in their place.

"According to the latest statistics that we received, the size of the indigenous population of Kurds in the Afrin region reached 34.8 percent in January, while they previously made up 97 percent of the population," the Afrin-based Human Rights Organization said in a report Sunday.
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