Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists in the northern Aleppo town of Afrin have started removing Syrian car plates, replacing them instead with "special plates" issued by the so-called "Afrin Canton Administration," according to reports.
For the duration of the war, residents of Afrin have continued to use Syrian plates and car licenses. However, by the end of last July, PKK terrorists in Afrin began to issue "special plates" and licenses for the first time.
PKK terrorists are pressuring Afrin residents to pay up to 200,000 Syrian Pounds in order to replace their old plates and licenses with the newly-issued ones.
Afrin residents are complaining of the new procedure which prevents them from entering areas under the control of both the Syrian regime and the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
The recent procedure put in place by PKK terrorists adds yet another hardship for the people of Afrin who have been living in terrible war conditions for seven years.
The Syrian regime responded to the PKK’s move by saying that the new procedure is "incomprehensible," demanding that they "immediately reverse this decision," a call that the PKK terrorist organization has rejected, claiming that it has issued this resolution as an "autonomous administration."
Anti-PYD Kurdish opposition members who spoke to Yeni Şafak said the decision to issue new car plates in Afrin was the result of a meeting for the so-called "Cantons Council" that took place recently in a U.S. military base in the Hasakah city of Rmeilan.
Another resolution to result from the same meeting is the decision to "make Kurdish the national language, which will be used in education and all official documents."
The terrorist council further added that Arabic will be taught as an "optional language" at schools for two hours per week.
Yasir Zakri, a former member of the Syrian Opposition Council (SOC), said 85 percent of the Afrin population does not speak Kurdish, noting that at least 65 percent of town’s residents are of Arab origin.
Zakri branded the latest measures taken by PKK terrorists as a "fascist tyranny."
