People's Protection Units, or YPG, the armed wing of the outlawed-PKK's offshoot Syrian Democratic Party, or PYD, drove out 800 Syrian Turkmens on Friday in Hamam village in 10 kilometer east of northern Tel Abyad city.
According to local sources, the PYD-linked militia gathered all people remaining in the village including women and children into a school.
The village in northern Syrian was home to only 800 people as vast majority of its residents fled into safer areas into nearby villages. Hammam had been housing a total of 20,000 villages before Kurdish militia tightened its siege into the region.
A YPG commander forced the villagers to send away in two hours, accusing them supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levants, or ISIL insurgents, who had been repulsed from Tel Abyad by the armed Kurdish groups. He threatened to kill all people who packed the school.
Abdurrahman Mustapha, the President of Syrian Turkmen Assemble, recalled that nearly 12,000 Syrain Turkmen have left the village due to incresing oppression.
Mustapha said that the PYD has intented to change the demographical make-up in the region. “1,200 Turkmen have found shelter in Turkey while 800 others took shelters in nearby villages. “When 800 Turkmen came back to the village, PYD's forces raided on village and forced them to leave," he expalined.
Mustapha said that YPG said coalition planed will launch strikes against the village if they refused to send away.
