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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkey is cementing its occupation of Afrin through settlement construction
2023-06-11
[NPASyria] For the past three years, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
 has pushed for the construction of dozens of settlements across areas it occupies in Syria. In late 2022, North Press counted 19 such constructions in the region of Afrin and over 100 across all of Ottoman Turkish-occupied Syria and Idlib. The latest count features at least 28 settlements in Afrin alone. The Ottoman Turkish government recently announced that it would build housing units for nearly a quarter of a million Syrians within the next three years. What explains the rise in settlement construction?

Turkey’s settlements in Syria are particularly concentrated around Jarabulus, al-Bab and Azaz (the so-called ’Euphrates Shield’ area), where North Press counted 45 settlements in mid-2022, as well as Afrin, which the Ottoman Turkish army and its proxy forces, the Syrian National Army (SNA), occupied in 2018. The invasion led to the exodus of up to 300,000 Kurdish inhabitants, according to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES). Whereas the region was once 97 percent Kurdish, only one-third of the indigenous population now remains, UN statistics show.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  I thought settlements were bad.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-06-11 07:42  

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