Another Kurdish family returns to Afrin

ARK News... A displaced Kurdish family in Aleppo has returned to its hometown in the villages of Afrin, in Syrian Kurdistan.

The family is from the village of Dersiwan, and returned from the city of Aleppo to its hometown in the village of Dersiwan in the countryside of Afrin, according to a source from the region who reported it to ARK today, May 26, 2023.

Recently, three Kurdish families who were displaced in the city of Aleppo returned to their hometowns in the villages of Afrin.

Among those families, two families descend from the village of “Ayn Hecerê” and a family from the village of “Quri Gulê” at the beginning of this month.

During the Afrin war in 2018 between Turkey and the PYD administration, more than 300,000 Kurds were displaced from the Afrin region towards al-Shahba, Aleppo, and other areas, and despite the fact that both the PYD and the armed factions put obstacles to the return of the displaced in the al-Shahba and Aleppo camps, the Kurdish families continue to return to the land of the fathers and grandfathers.

The PYD has controlled al-Shahba areas in the countryside of Aleppo, including five camps for the displaced from Afrin since 2018, and is working to prevent the return of the displaced to Afrin under the pretext that its militants will liberate the area.

Politicians and observers appeal to the Kurds about the need for the displaced, displaced persons, and refugees to return to their areas in order to prevent demographic change and to thwart all schemes hatched to change the demographic composition of the Kurdish regions in Syrian Kurdistan.

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