Aleppo-Sana
Identical media and civil sources revealed the massive attacks and violations committed by the Turkish regime forces and its terrorists against the people and their properties in Afrin in the northern countryside of Aleppo during the past year, where they killed about 60 civilians in addition to the displacement and kidnapping of thousands and the uprooting of more than 70 thousand trees, looting and the theft of dozens of archaeological sites.
According to the sources, more than 58 civilians were killed, including 9 women, and about 120 others were wounded by the bullets of the Turkish occupation forces and its mercenaries in Afrin, in addition to the kidnapping of more than 987 civilians, including 92 women, due to the escalation of violations and criminal practices of the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries against civilians.
The sources pointed out that the terrorist organizations affiliated with the Turkish occupation, with direct supervision and support from these forces, destroyed 50 archaeological sites, looted their contents and smuggled them to Turkish markets, in addition to destroying large areas of agricultural fields and cutting and uprooting more than 72 thousand olive trees that were a major source of income for the people.
During the past year, the sources revealed that the mercenaries of the Turkish occupation seized 250 homes they seized from their original inhabitants by force of arms and deserted them in preparation for bringing the terrorists' families and housing them in them in an attempt to impose a new demographic reality that serves the plans, ambitions and illusions of the Ottoman Erdogan regime.
In an indication of the chaos caused by the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries, the areas they occupied in Afrin witnessed 39 explosions, with cars and bicycles, or explosive devices and mines that led to the death and injury of more than 170 civilians, including many children and women, in addition to causing destruction and significant material damage to the property of the people and property. Public and infrastructure.
Since its storming by the Turkish occupation forces and its mercenaries in March 2018, the city of Afrin and its countryside has witnessed continuous attempts by the Erdogan regime to change the demography of the region and obliterate its history, as it replaced the names of regions, main squares, towns and villages with Turkish names and imposed the Turkish language as a basic subject in the teaching curricula and raising the Turkish flag on it in addition to Attempts to obliterate the cultural and historical identity of the region by destroying all the monuments that indicate its Arab identity.
