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Report: TURKEY’S TRACK RECORD: The occupation of Afrin

Posted on November 5, 2019November 28, 2019 By Centre Kurde Genève
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“People here, everyone has a dream, a dream of returning back to their farms and their homes in Afrin.” Hassan Hassan, former Afrin resident

CONTENTS
*History of Afrin
*The people of Afrin
*Ethnic and religious minorities in Afrin
*Political mobilisation and repression
*Turkish invasion and war
*What does the United Nations say?
*Afrin: Under occupation
*Kidnapping and attacks
*Documented attacks on civilians, July – October 2019
*Occupation and Erasure
*Turkey-backed jihadis and demographic engineering
*Case study: Hassan Hassan
*Impact on children
*Impact on women
*Case study: Hamida Umma Mohammed
*Refugees from Afrin
*Case study: Mohammed Arth
* Conclusion
Methodology
Bibliography
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The Kurdish Center for Human Rights was established in Geneva in 2000, according to the Suisse civil law. In response to the genocide, war crimes and human rights violations occurring across the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria.

The KCHR, as a non-profit organization of social utility, was born from the need to  inform the European and Swiss people and the OHCHR on human rights violations against the Kurds via seminars and other dialogue platforms and to attend their meetings; to establish a dialogue with NGO’s, civil movements, associations, government and civil institutions.. Read More….

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