

2 September، 2018

Aleppo, Sana Arabic

Turkish regime forces and its mercenaries uprooted thousands of olive trees in Afrin in northern countryside of Aleppo under the pretext of opening road leading to Hamam village on the Syrian-Turkish border.

According to sources in the village of Hamam, west of the city of Afrin, the Turkish occupation forces brought bulldozers to the western countryside of the city of Afrin and began to raze hundreds of acres planted with fruit trees and uprooted thousands of olive trees on the pretext of widening the road Which connects the city of Afrin and their villages.

The sources pointed out that the Turkish bulldozers deliberately inflicted the greatest damage to the fields planted with olive trees. Through the destruction of agricultural land and their main livelihood is collective punishment to force the people to accept terrorist groups of the Turkish regime.

The sources demanded that pressure be exerted on the Turkish regime to stop its crime against the people and their property and to expel the terrorist groups in the Afrin area and its villages, which are destructive as rhey evict the people from their homes and take over their resources.

The crime of the Turkish regime is added to dozens of crimes committed by mercenaries from the terrorist groups that displaced tens of thousands of civilians after the invasion of the region of Afrin last March, in addition to looting and burning their homes and setting dozens of fires in the area which led to the destructiion of more than 20 thousand fruit and olive trees and dozens Hectares of coniferous forest.