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Turkey hands over 250 Syrian refugees to opposition areas in NW Syria
2023-08-26
[NPASyria] On Friday, Ottoman Turkish authorities handed over more than 250 Syrian refugees to the opposition-held areas in northwest Syria in continuation of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
’s plan to change the demography of northern Syria.

An exclusive source told North Press that the Ottoman Turkish authorities handed over the Military Police, a faction affiliated with Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition, known as the Syrian National Army (SNA), more than 100 refugees including 23 women with their children through Tel Abyad border crossing in the north of Raqqa, northern Syria.

The city of Tel Abyad with its countryside have been under the Ottoman Turkish occupation since 2019 following a military operation dubbed "Peace Spring" launched by the Ottoman Turkish forces and their affiliated SNA factions to push away the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) under the pretext of "protecting the Ottoman Turkish national security."

The source also said the authorities deported other 150 refugees including 39 women with their children to Idlib Governorate through Bab al-Hawa border crossing.

Idlib Governorate is under the control of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS, formerly al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front) and its political wing, the Salvation Government, and the SNA factions with its political wing the Interim Government.

The authorities took the refugees’ iris scans and fingerprints to prevent them from entering Turkey, the source added.

By deporting the refugees, Turkey aims at changing the demography of the region, since it sends the refugees from other parts of Syria to the north after it completes building settlements in areas such as Afrin.

An exclusive source told North Press that the number of deportees in August through the crossings of Bab al-Hawa, Baba al-Salama, and Tel Abyad surpassed 12,000.
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