Villages of the Yazidi community are facing demographic change after being abandoned during the military operation “Peace Spring”, as well as the theft of their property by Turkish-backed factions.

Britain-Based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported that members of “Sultan Murad” faction destroyed and looted a cemetery belonging to the Yazidi Kurds in the village of Jan Tamer, east of Serêkanîyê (Ras al-Ain).

On the other hand, Turkey-backed factions, supported and facilitated by the Turkish government, are resettling families of fighters loyal to them in these villages, as they do in other areas under their control. Dozens of families were relocated this spring to the village of Merikesh, the largest of these villages.

There were more than ten villages in eastern Serêkanîyê countryside, inhabited by Yazidis who were later forced to flee due to the military operation “Peace Spring The 10.000 population is distributed geographically in Merikis, Jan Tamer, Lazka, Shukria, Java, Ldara, the tomb of Sheikh Hussein, Matala, Bir Noah and Hamidia.

Several other villages in western countryside of Serêkanîyê, such as Al-Assadiya, Khirbet Banat and Khirbet Ghazal, which are also under the control of Turkish-backed factions, that practice all kinds of violations and encroachments after forcing indigenous people to leave their areas by force.