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Title: YPG to stop demographic change, will target new settlers in Afrin: Spokesperson
Post by: TomSea on August 12, 2018, 02:51:16 pm

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YPG to stop demographic change, will target new settlers in Afrin: Spokesperson
Kurdistan24

QAMISHLO (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdish military force in north Syria on Saturday said they would intensify their operations in the country’s northwest Kurdish enclave of Afrin and target new settlers to stop the demographic change.

“Our fight in Afrin is to drive out those strangers,” Nuri Mahmoud, the spokesperson of the People’s Protection Units (YPG), told Kurdistan 24.

Mahmoud referred to the people brought by Turkish-backed Syrian opposition militants from Damascus to Afrin as “strangers.”

Read more at: http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/e6192e00-276e-4375-9a34-da5d3597397d (http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/e6192e00-276e-4375-9a34-da5d3597397d)

Demographic changes.