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Residents of Syria's Ariha fear Turkey will deliver them to Syrian regime
2021-08-29
[NPASYRIA] Youssef Qintar fears that he may be displaced again from his town of Kafr Lata in tbe Ariha region, south of the Aleppo-Latakia Highway in the southern countryside of Idlib, only five months after his return from the IDP camps.

The villages and towns located in Zawiya Mountain, Jabal al-Arbaeen, and Ariha city have been witnessing military escalation since June.

Since early 2020, the region witnessed relative calm following a Russian-Ottoman Turkish meeting in Astana, which encouraged some residents to return to their homes.

Despite the de-escalation agreement signed by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
and Russia in March 2020 and the presence of the Ottoman Turkish posts, residents fear of a new operation by the government forces with the return of escalation.

The residents are afraid that Ottoman Turkish forces may hand over parts of those areas to the government forces in exchange for obtaining new areas east of the Euphrates or gains in trade or weapons deals as they did before.

"The absence of the Ottoman Turkish position and its silence confirm that it agrees on what is happening," Qintar added.

Turkey was a guarantor in the countryside of Hama and Aleppo previously, and it promised the residents of those areas that it would prevent any advance of the government forces. However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
it handed them over in return for being permitted to invade areas east of the Euphrates in 2019.

The area south of the M4 Highway in the countryside of Idlib is home to about a quarter of a million civilians, including thousands of IDPs, who suffer from difficult living and economic conditions, according to director of the of the Syria Response Coordinators Team Mohammad Hallaj.

"The recent military escalation in Syria’s north indicates that there is an unannounced agreement between Turkey and Russia, and suggests the continuation of the escalation," Northern Democratic Brigade front man Mahmud Habib said Wednesday.

Although Turkey and Russia are guarantors of ceasefire agreements, they are sharing in the escalation and shelling of civilians in several areas in the Syrian north, Habib told North Press.

The front man pointed out that there is Russian-Ottoman Turkish complicity in which Syrian civilians have been victimized, and it was matched by "ambiguous international silence and unclear reasons, even by the Global Coalition present in northeastern Syria."
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