Turkey continues to build colonial settlements in occupied Afrin in northern Syria. In the course of the policy of ethnic cleansing, selected groups are settled in the newly built housing blocks by the Turkish state. Most recently, a settlement was built in the village of Kefer Rûmê in the district of Shera. The settlement consists of 50 four-storey buildings. Another 200 residential buildings are to be built near the village.

Settlement construction in the Turkish occupied zone is taking place with the support of "aid organisations" from Qatar, Kuwait and Palestine. Fifty new residential buildings have recently been built in the village of Shadar in the Sherawa district. Preparations have been made for further settlements on the thirty-hectare site.

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.