The first of its kind... Eight families returned to Afrin, including four Yezidi Kurds

ARK News... In a first of its kind move, four displaced Kurdish families of the Yazidi Kurds returned to their hometown in the Afrin region of Syrian Kurdistan, according to information received by ARK, on Sunday, April 17, 2022.

Despite the violations that are taking place in the area, the campaign for the return of the displaced people of Afrin to their city continues, the latest of which is the return of eight Kurdish families, including four families of the Yezidi Kurds, who returned to the village of Qastal Jindo in the Shara town in the region.

An informed source told ARK: The violations and clashes that have become almost daily are not an obstacle to the return of the displaced people of the city of Afrin from the al-Shahba camps and the neighborhoods of the city of Aleppo, as well as from Lebanon and Turkey, in every period witnessing the return of Kurdish families towards their hometown.

The source added: The Kurdish families that returned recently had been displaced since 2018, especially the Yezidi Kurds, stressing that the other families returned to the center of Shih town and Qarmitlq village, which belongs to the same town.

For his part, activist Mustafa Sheikho said: More than 400 Kurdish families have returned at the beginning of the New Year, while families continue to return despite the difficulties of the PYD administration in the al-Shahba camps and neighborhoods of Aleppo on the one hand, and the armed factions in Afrin and Jarablis on the other.

Politicians and observers call for the need for the displaced and refugees to return to their homes in order to prevent any demographic change in the Kurdish regions, especially in Afrin, Serê kaniyê, and Girê Spî.

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