Jadan Ali: The proportion of returnees to Afrin is greater than the proportion of returnees to Kobani

ARK News: A member of the representative of the Kurdistan Region of the Kurdish National Council in Syria, Jadan Ali that the proportion of returnees to Afrin region in Kurdistan of Syria is greater than the proportion of returnees to Kobani.

In his participation in the ARK Bulletin on Friday, 07.06.2019 regarding the large migration of the Kurds which the Kurdistan of Syria’s region suffered , Ali said that despite the violations committed by the factions in Afrin from the killing, kidnapping, and looting, the proportion of returnees to Afrin is greater than the proportion of returnees to Kobani, and the proportion of returnees to Afrin is about 60%.

Ali added that the returnees to Afrin face obstacles by the PYD, the Syrian regime, the factions, and Turkey. The question for PYD is why the percentage of returnees to Kobani is lower than that in Afrin?

This indicates that the erroneous imposed the PYD administration on the Kurdish people are not in the service of the people and that the refugees’ fear by the PYD of preventing them from returning.

The number of Syrian refugees in the Kurdistan region about 250 thousand people, in addition to the large numbers of Kurds from Kurdistan of Syria who emigrated to Turkey and Lebanon and the countries of the European Union, and according to observers, a large percentage of Syria's Kurds have been displaced, and there are fears of demographic change, and Kurds are now a minority in their areas.

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