Afrin will fall. Innocents will be massacred. And Erdoğan's troops will occupy northern Syria in response to failing to conquer Aleppo and Damascus.
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In 1939, when Turkish troops arrived at Antioche near Afrin, the pro-Syrian Jewish, Orthodox Christian and Armenian minorities fled to Syria. The occupation was accompanied by settlement colonization: thousands of Sunni Turks were installed at
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Demographic change in the Antioch / Hatay region has always been a priority for Ankara. After the de-Christianization of Turkey, the Ankara regime focused on Alevis (Turkish and Kurds), Alawites (Arabs) and the left, AKA the new "internal enemies".
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In 1980, the junta of General Evren (pro-USA) continued the ethno-confessional and ideological cleansing in Antioch / Hatay by installing Sunni Turks from the Black Sea and, in 1982, Turkish-speaking and anti-Communist Turkish Uzbeks. Afghanistan. Uighurs soon in Afrin.
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the Armenian genocide itself was a population replacement of Armenians by Kurds in large parts of Turkey including Van district
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