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| Officers, members of Turkish-backed faction in Afrin resign |
| 2022-02-23 |
ALEPPO NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) Dozens of members, including officers from the Turkish-backed Civil Police faction, in the city of Afrin, north of Aleppo, submitted on Tuesday their resignation at the backdrop of the injury of a number of them in an attack by the Military Police faction. More than 85 members of the Civil Police faction, including five officers, submitted their resignations, at the backdrop of the Military Police assaulting members of the faction in a clash this morning, North Press reported a private source. The officers and members, who submitted their resignations, were mostly from the Special Missions Department, in addition to the resignation of a number of members from the Guards Department and the Diwan, the source added. Two members of the Civil Police faction and a woman were variously wounded in an armed clash with the Military Police in Afrin this morning. Since Turkey and Turkish-backed armed opposition factions took control of Afrin in March 2018, cases of murder, kidnapping, infighting, illegal logging, and building settlements in Afrin have continued, according to human rights reports. Due to the Turkish invasion in 2018, the indigenous people of Afrin resorted to al-Awda, Shahba, Sardam, Afrin, and Barkhodan camps, while others took refuge in 42 villages and towns in Aleppo northern countryside. Reporting by Farouq Hamo |
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