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This report makes clear that the Turkish authorities are not simply overlooking the miserable reality on the ground in northern Syria, but that they bear direct responsibility for many of the detention-related abuses and violations of property rights. These abuses and violations are most often directed at Kurdish civilians and anyone else perceived to have ties to Kurdish-led forces, and are very much in line with Türkiye’s stated goals of weakening the Kurdish presence in northern Syria and creating an “end-to-end” security belt or buffer zone between its southern border and areas controlled by the SDF in northern Syria. As tens of thousands of people fled to other parts of Syria, and beyond, during Türkiye’s incursion into Afrin, Turkish authorities were quick to orchestrate the resettlement of hundreds of Sunni Arab families displaced from Eastern Ghouta in homes of the district’s Kurdish inhabitants. Many more displaced families from Ghouta, rural Damascus, northern Hama, and Idlib, including those of the fighters deployed to the area, have arrived in Afrin in the years since. A similar trend has been documented in the strip between Tel Abyad and Ras al-Ain following Türkiye’s 2019 military operation.
A second stated objective of Türkiye’s military incursions communicated by president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been to create so-called “safe zones” in the territories it occupies in order to resettle over a million Syrian refugees currently present in Türkiye, many of whom have lived there for years and who come from other areas of Syria. But as this report lays out, regions under Turkish occupation are far from safe. In addition to the absence of the rule of law, Turkish-occupied regions, like other parts of Syria, also suffer from dire economic and humanitarian conditions. Expelling large numbers of people to regions where they have a credible fear of persecution or torture would breach Türkiye’s obligations under international law. Expulsions and resettlement on a mass scale would also drastically change the ethnic composition of northern Syria, a region accustomed to experiencing forced demographic shifts.
Türkiye has already carried out forced returns of Syrian refugees. Since at least 2017, Turkish forces have arrested, detained, and summarily deported thousands of Syrian refugees, often coercing them into signing “voluntary” return forms and forcing them to cross into northern Syria through various border crossings. Indeed, in July 2023 alone, Türkiye sent back over 1,700 Syrians into the Tel Abyad area.
Accountability for human rights abuses and potential war crimes committed by commanders and members of various factions, as well as the Military Police in Turkish-occupied territories, remains elusive. Despite some limited internal prosecutions by the Syrian National Army, the military courts which have jurisdiction over such issues lack independence and impartiality, trials are rarely open to the public, and little information on proceedings is available. Türkiye has not taken meaningful steps to hold SNA elements or its own officials accountable nor grant access to independent human rights monitors.
In 2023, the United States sanctioned three SNA factions and their leaders for serious human rights abuses against civilians. In January 2024, two human rights organizations filed a criminal complaint with the German Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office calling on it to investigate violations of international law by SNA factions in Afrin since 2018. Under the principle of “universal jurisdiction”, national judicial officials can pursue cases against individuals credibly implicated in certain grave international crimes even though they were committed elsewhere and neither the alleged perpetrators nor the victims are nationals of the country.
As an occupying power and the de facto government in this area, Türkiye is obliged to ensure its forces strictly observe international human rights and humanitarian law.
An Arab settler from Idlib killed a Kurdish child in Jindires Afrin. This is the “sAfE zOnE” created by Erdogan and his terrorist militias in the Kurdish city of Afrin. May God give your family patience to bear this pain.💔💔
#Afrin#Afrin_needs_international_protection#Turkey
A video showing the body of the Kurdish child being pulled from the well. Traces of slaughter are clear on his neck, where he was slaughtered by a Sunni Arab settler in Afrin.
Turkey intends to Turkify the area, permanently demographic cleanse the area of the Syrian Kurdish Community, settle Turkmen, and eventually turn the 30 Km area as a Turkmen majority area with Turkmenized Arabs and Turkmen
These terrorists are threatening Kurdish lives saying they’ll behead any Kurds they catch.
You know what these radical Islamists need? The brave Kurdish women of the YPJ. They’ll handle ‘em.
The Kurdish nation is here to stay.
#Kurdistan
Darnaj water station has been sabotaged and looted by local gangs in eastern rural of Deir Ezor، coinciding with the security tension in the region.
#Syria#DeirEzZor#دير_الزور
The armed groups continue looting civic service facilities in Deir Ezzor. In this footage, they have robbed the water station in #Dhiban town, depriving the local populace of access to clean water supplies. Our forces are about to take firm actions against them to bring back security and stability to the local populace.
@Ivan_Hassib Any attack against Kurdish civilians by Syrian Arab gangsters in Europe will just result in Kurds in Turkey targeting Arabs in Kurdish cities.
An armed group says that it is from the Arab Al-Akidat clan in Deir Ezzor and is present on the Serbian-Bulgarian border. In the video, the gunmen threaten Kurdish refugees, including women, children and the elderly, with death if they try to cross the border with the aim of migrating to Europe. And one of the gunmen says that he will rip out the tongue of every Kurdish person. These threats came against the backdrop of clashes between the SDF and tribal militants in the Deir ez-Zor countryside about a week ago.
Amedspor maçında keyfi olarak gözaltına alındım. Benimle birlikte 12 arkadaş istiklal marşına hiçbir hakaret olmamasına rağmen ayağa kalkmadıkları için keyfi olarak gözaltına aldılar. Ne bir taahhüt ne bir imza direkt geceyi keyfi olarak karakolda bekletiyorlar.
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Sultan Suleiman Shah mercenaries celebrating Erdogan's re-election in Turkish-occupied Afrin, which has already resulted in injuries. There are reports that a child has been killed.