21.8.2013 – Kurdpress – 200 Kurdish families from Syrian northern city of Gerki Spi were forced to quit their houses and the houses have been occupied by the forces of Jabhat al- Nusra that is fighting the Kurds in the city and other Kurdish regions of the country.
Commenting on the developments in the city, Zara Mostu, a Syrian Kurdish journalist said the city’s almost calm and the Islamist forces are controlling it. “More than 200 Kurdish families have left their houses in Gerki Spi and left for Kobani, Hassaka and Qamishlo in the last 10 days. The forces of al- Nusra have seized the opportunity and mugged the houses and gave their houses to Arabs families,” the journalist went on to say. Mostu added the situation is stable in Kobani in the wake of a recent agreement between the two fighting lines but people are suffering the lack of water and other needs. He further told Kurdpress that joblessness is the most important problem of the Syrian Kurds as many Kurdish people cannot visit Aleppo and Damascus and have lost their jobs.