Erdogan's regime's ambitions go beyond supporting terrorism to try to change the demography of northern Syria and obliterate its historical features

Aleppo-Sana

The Turkish occupation forces and their tools of terrorist organizations continue their aggression against areas in the north of Syria by bombing safe areas, continuing Turkification operations and demographic change, and stealing the region’s wealth and its effects in imitation of the policies of the Israeli occupation entity, Judaization and settlement in the occupied Syrian Arab Golan and captured Palestine.

The practices of the Turkish regime have formed over the past years and are still a blatant example of disregard for the minimum civilized and moral values, international law and the Charter of the United Nations. .

Regarding the practices of the Turkish regime within the framework of its plans to impose a new reality in the areas it has occupied with its terrorist groups since 2018, Muhammad Hanoush, head of the Aleppo Provincial Council, said in a statement to SANA, “The Turkification policy carried out by the Turkish regime in the northern countryside of the country is not new, as it is an extension of its Ottoman legacy. For many years, he looted the wealth of the Arab world, attacked its property, and forced and transferred manufacturers, craftsmen, and professionals to contribute to building its alleged civilization.

Hannoush believes that “Erdogan’s ambitions are now renewed through new Turkification attempts, which include the education sectors in schools, universities, health centers, agriculture, demographic change of the population and infrastructure, and the endeavor to replace the Syrian Arab identity with a Turkish one, and to replace the herds of armed terrorist groups with the place of the indigenous people who cling to their lands and reject the Turkish identity and all Neo-colonial attempts.

In a flagrant violation of international law and the Charter of the United Nations, the Turkish regime established last year a college and institute in the town of Al-Rai in the countryside of Aleppo governorate affiliated with the Turkish University of Health Sciences in Istanbul, in the context of its attempts to obliterate the history of the region.

Dr. Sakhr Alabi, Director of Antiquities and Museums in Aleppo, points out that “the crimes of the Turkish occupation were manifested in the violation of the sanctities of archaeological sites and the systematic sabotage of their Syrian identity through the use of heavy machinery and its illegal attempts to excavate and steal antiquities, sabotage archaeological areas to erase the memory of the Syrian civilization, antiquities trafficking and uprooting olive trees. In some areas, some hills were completely bulldozed in search of antiquities.”

Albi shows that the Turkish occupation's attacks have affected more than 50 sites, including the site of Ain Dara, where it deliberately and through its tools, flocks of terrorism, tore down the ancient statues, and the damage rate was more than 40 percent, according to civil sources, in addition to turning it into a military shooting field, in addition to distorting the archaeological cemetery. In the Nabi Hori area by adding new blocks to the site and turning it into a summer area.

Olabi called on international bodies and organizations concerned with the protection of human heritage to intervene to stop these violations of the sanctity of archaeological sites and the acts of sabotage that have affected them and are still committed by the Turkish regime and its tools of terrorists, the enemies of civilization and humanity.

The occupation of the areas occupied by the Turkish regime and its terrorist mercenaries in the north also affected the properties, lands and crops of citizens, as Engineer Radwan Harsoni, Director of Agriculture in Aleppo asserts that “the Turkish occupier stole agricultural crops in the areas of Azaz, Afrin and northern Syria, including grain and olive oil, and deliberately cut down olive trees under the pretext of opening The roads were uprooted, while the bulk of them were uprooted and transferred to Turkish territory, as well as the theft of water and the reduction of its quantities entering the dams, which led to a drop in the water level in them to less than three metres.

New facts are revealed daily and prove the intentions of the Turkish-Erdogan regime towards Syria to go beyond the fact of its support for Takfiri terrorist organizations to try to obtain a green light from its masters in the White House to establish the so-called (safe zone) that allows it to gather its terrorists there, train and arm them to be a springboard for attacking the Syrian state. No, he is the one who turned his country's borders with Syria into a corridor for bringing in arms and terrorist mercenaries from all corners of the earth over the past years.

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