The invading Turkish state has been changing the demographic structure of Afrin since the invasion of the city in 2018. It has so far built more than 22 colonial houses in all the villages and districts of the occupied canton. Families living in different parts of Syria and mercenary families from different parts of the world have been settled down in these colonial houses.

On January 4, in the Jindires district, an association called "Ecnadin" from Palestine built a colonial house on the estate of a migrant who settled down in Shehba.

ANHA spoke to the migrant man whose estate was seized by Turkey to build a colonial house. The man named Hesen Mihemed had lived in the Şitka village of Mabeta district before the invasion of Afrin. He was forcibly displaced by the Turkish state on March 18, 2018.

Hesen Mihemed stated that the invading Turkish state cut down 280 olive trees on the 4-hectare land which belonged to him and his cousin, Emin Murad Mihemed, between the villages of Hemilde and Rifetiye in the Jindires district. Turkey seized their estate to build colonial houses. Mihemed will file a complaint with the United Nations.

Mihemed called for punishing the invading Turkish state for its forced displacement of local residents in the occupied Afrin.

Previously, local sources reported that the invading Turkish state had built colonial houses called "Ecnadin" to settle 200 mercenary families on 4-hectare land owned by Hesen Mecîd Mihemed and Emin Murad Mihemed in the Cindires district.

Hesen Mihemed now lives in a dilapidated house in the Til Sosin village of the Ehdase district in Shehba Canton.