The demographic changes targeting the Kurdish residents of Syria’s Afrin city are a “disaster,” the Russian ambassador to Iraq told Rudaw last week. Turkey-backed groups have been accused of replacing Kurds with Arabs and Turkmens there.
Kurds used to make up 96 percent of Afrin’s population but now represent only 25 percent, over two dozen organizations said in a letter they cosigned to call on the UN and major powers to “end the Turkish occupation” of the area.
