MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ERDOGAN’S WALL – Turkey Dividing Afrin with Concrete Wall: Damascus

Basnews English 24/04/2019 – 24 April 2019 – ERBIL — Turkey and its allied rebels in northwestern Syria are building a concrete wall to divide the Kurdish enclave of Afrin from other areas.Syrian media reported on Tuesday that Turkey is planning to split Afrin from other areas in north of Aleppo province.

The report also claimed that Turkey has constructed a 560 KM-long wall on its border with Afrin enclave. After completing the entire wall, it will be a 711 km barrier.Turkey and its allied Syrian rebels attacked Afrin in January 2018 and pushed the Kurdish forces of People’s Protection Units (YPG) out of the area after three months of fierce fightings. Ankara sees the YPG as an offspring of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) which is designated as a “terrorist organization” by Turkey.

Turkish and Syrian Islamist rebels are criticized by international organizations of widespread human rights violations. The Turkish intervention in Syrian Kurdistan has so far led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of the indigenous people from Afrin. More via www.mesop.de