Turkey continues to build colonial settlements in occupied Afrin in northern Syria. Settlement construction in the Turkish occupied zone is taking place with the support of "aid organisations" from Qatar, Kuwait and Palestine.
The Hawar News Agency (ANHA) reported that the Turkish state, with the support of the Muslim Brotherhood association, is setting up a new settlement in the village of Matina in the Shera district of Afrin canton, after Turkish forces and its mercenaries uprooted hundreds of olive trees.
According to the local sources, the land on which 150 houses are to be built belongs to the citizen Khalil Abdullah, who was forcibly displaced to Shehba canton.
The foreign settlers are working to cut down more trees around it in order to expand the area of the settlement and sell firewood, according to ANHA, citing local sources.
The Turkish state occupied Afrin in spring 2018 with jihadist mercenaries and has since been pursuing a policy of demographic change. Instead of the predominantly Kurdish population, mercenaries are being settled with their families. According to the report published by the human rights organisation Afrin-Syria on the current situation in the formerly most peaceful canton in the civil war country of Afrin on 1 June, the Turkish occupation forces and their jihadist mercenaries abducted at least 53 people, four of them women, under various pretexts in May.
