Turkish authorities have reportedly issued foreigners’ ID cards for local residents of Syria’s Afrin province who have been living there for generations, according to local sources in Afrin.
A report by pro-Kurdish Fırat news agency (ANF) stated that Turkish authorities in seized Afrin province have also banned the use of ID documents issued by Syrian regime led by Bashar al-Assad.
Local sources also say that checkpoints have been set up in the entry/exit points in Afrin and that personal information is forcibly obtained from the ancient peoples of the city, the Kurds and the Arabs, and that people are being issued foreigners’ ID cards.
Turkish military and its Free Syrian Army (FSA) proxies launched a military operation in Afrin, a Kurdish-majority area of northern Syria on January 20, 2018. Together with FSA militants Turkish troops captures Afrin in late March.
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from Stockholm Center for Freedom https://stockholmcf.org/turkish-authorities-treat-local-people-of-syrias-afrin-as-strangers/
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