Besides the attacks of the Syrian regime and al-Qaeda linked armed groups backed by Turkey, cities in western Kurdistan are also facing the 2nd Arabic Belt policy aimed at the arabization of the western Kurdistan territory.

According to a source from the Mehemi region in Qamişlo, radical Islamic groups are trying to change the demographic structure of the Qamişlo city by bringing pro-Islamic Arab population from Syrian cities such as Dera Zore and Aleppo and having them settle in the city.

The source, asking to be mentioned unnamed, says that the armed Islamic groups are buying houses and distributing money to the Arab families migrating from Dera Zore and Aleppo in order to bring the region under Arab influence and control. The source notes that 35 houses have been bought and given to these Arab families recently.

According to the source, the armed gang groups have resorted to this method after they failed to achieve a military success in west Kurdistan region.

The Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo have also been subject to the same policy under which Islamic groups occupied some 250 houses of Kurdish civilians in Til Abyad where more than 70 people have been massacred and hundreds of others kidnapped recently.

According to the reports by local sources, a number of Arabs who settled in Til Abyad schools after fleeing the Syrian cities Reka, Humis, Hema and Aleppo have been placed in the houses of the Kurdish civilians who have recently been forced to leave their homes and lands by the armed groups ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham) and the al-Nusra Front. The reports say that many Arabs who were staying in al-Nusra Front's schools have been placed in 250 houses in the Kurdish neighborhoods Cisir, Lel and Eli Bin Talip Cemi.

Hundreds of Kurds were deprived of their identity and registered as “stateless” following the population census in Syria in 1954.

The Kurdish population on Turkey-Syria borderline has been drawn away from their territory and replaced by Arabs in the scope of the 'Arabic Belt' policy which was initiated after the Ba'ath regime came to power in 1963.

Tens of thousands of Arab families have been housed in Kurdish cities in masses. The policy has forced more than 150 thousand Kurds to migrate from their lands.