Video: "Our family returned from Erbil to Afrin and was not subjected to any harassment"

ARK News… Since the start of the campaign to return the displaced and refugees of Afrin to their homes, another Kurdish family, a refugee in the Kurdistan Region, has returned to the Afrin region in Syrian Kurdistan.

In exclusive statements to ARK, Muhammad Ibrahim said: Our refugee family in Erbil returned to the Afrin region of Syrian Kurdistan and arrived at the village and they are now in their home.

Ibrahim added: After three days of travel and hardship they were exposed to during their return, they arrived at the village, and were not subjected to any harassment from the armed factions.

Ibrahim confirmed that his family took refuge in the Kurdistan Region six years ago, and the decision came to encourage other refugees to return.

A refugee family from Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region, on August 30, 2021, arrived in the Jenderes district of Afrin, and five other families of Afrin refugees residing in the Kurdistan Region are scheduled to return to the region, according to a special source for ARK.

With the beginning of the war in Syria, tens of thousands of Kurdish families from the cities and towns of Syrian Kurdistan sought refuge in the Kurdistan Region, and according to official statistics, 250 thousand refugees from the cities of Syrian Kurdistan live in the three governorates of the Kurdistan Region, including thousands from Afrin.

Politicians and observers call for the necessity of the return of the displaced and refugees to their homes in order to prevent any demographic change in the Kurdish areas, especially in Afrin, Serê Kaniye, and Girê Spi.

Since the start of the return campaign on Eid al-Adha, hundreds of Afrin IDPs, from Shahba camps and the neighborhoods of Aleppo and Lebanon, have returned to their homes in the city of Afrin and its seven town and villages. According to the latest statistics, the number of returning families exceeded 700.

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