As a part of the U.S. project to legitimize the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) and form a terror corridor reaching the Mediterranean, 167 settlements were emptied. Many of the last remaining houses in Turkmen and Arab villages have been demolished with bulldozers by PKK terrorists.
Syria’s al-Hasakah, Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor and Lattakia are among the areas emptied for the PKK. The number of people expelled has exceeded 1.4 million.
The target of the PKK terror corridor is Turkey’s 911-kilometer border with Syria. Some of the villages and towns evacuated along the terror corridor starting from al-Hasakah and reaching across to Lattakia include: Molla Barho, Nustel, Ummul Baramiyl, Suluk, Kuneytra, Huveyra Kebiyr, Tel Burak, Tel Hamis, Tel Tamir, al-Kahtaniye, Resul Ayn, al-Hüseyniye, al-Hol al-Hisan, Salihiyye, Suveyda Jazira, al-Jireydi, Rabia, Nebi Yunus, Kinsibbe, Goydagı, Nisibin, Hasse, Sheran, Gimam and Saray.
Seventy percent of the settlements subjected to looting and invasion since the PKK terrorist organization launched its occupation activities in 2013 have belonged to Turkmens. Many villages in Raqqa, Aleppo’s north and Lattakia are occupied by PKK/PYD terrorists and their ally Mukaveme-i Syria.
Colonel Ahmet Arnavut, the former commander of the Second Coastal Department of Turkmen Mountain, said 51 Turkmen settlements were occupied in the Lattakia countryside as part of the U.S.-PKK joint project, and that the terrorists first looted and then demolished hundreds of houses and businesses.
He added that PKK terrorists and the Assad-backed Mukaveme-i Syria forces held military postings together on Turkmen Mountain and also fought on the same side.
Deir ez-Zor, located near the Iraqi border, is the area most recently occupied by the U.S.-PKK alliance. “The U.S. turned these areas into ruins from the air and then the PKK entered the empty regions,” said Colonel Feyz al-Asmar.
He stated that the PKK had occupied the land of families after their homes were destroyed and more than 300 family members who fled to the east of the Euphrates were evicted from the region, adding that this crime against humanity was committed by the U.S. knowingly and willingly.
Ekrem Dede, a Turkmen from Tel Abayd, said that Turkmens and Arabs in Raqqa, al-Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor were being systematically evicted from their homes as part of a project to eliminate their existence. He added that 15 Turkmen settlements in Tal Abyad, Jarabulus and Manbij were completely destroyed and then taken over by the PKK.
The destruction of the U.S. and PKK was detailed in United Nations reports in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017. The reports state that settlements were evacuated and human rights violations occurred.
“Syria is being divided into fragments in front of our eyes. A nation is within the world’s most chaotic and deadly battlefield,” said UN International Independent Syrian Research Commission Chief Paulo Pinheiro.
“The YPG has looted and destroyed parts of Syria,” he added.
