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2022-01-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkish-backed faction cuts down olive trees in Syria’s Afrin
The Turkish version of sowing their fields with salt.
[NPASYRIA] The Ottoman Turkish-backed Sham Legion cut down, on Tuesday, more than 100 olive trees owned by residents of villages affiliated with Sherawa district in the countryside of Afrin, north of Aleppo.

Militants of the faction cut down 50 olive trees in the village of Basofan that are owned by Zakyya Merzo, a resident of the village, a local source told North Press.

"The turbans of the faction also cut down 75 olive trees in the village of Fafertin that are owned by Khalil Nasotka, a resident of the village," the source added.

The Ottoman Turkish-backed armed factions cut down olive trees and turn them into firewood to sell them in local markets of Afrin or export them to areas held by 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).

The city of Afrin and its villages, north of Aleppo, have been controlled by Ottoman Turkish forces and the affiliated factions since March 2018.

Since then, the region has been witnessing ongoing security chaos accompanied by infighting among turbans of the Ottoman Turkish-backed factions, arrests, and kidnappings amid the factions’ disability to settle the security and spread safety.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-01-20 01:26|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top
 File under: Ottoman Proxies 

#1 No olive branch for you!
Posted by DarthVader 2022-01-20 08:14||   2022-01-20 08:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Kind or destroying a big part of their livelihood.

Sort of like burning their fields.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-01-20 08:50||   2022-01-20 08:50|| Front Page Top

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