The last act of the Turkish cultural genocide in Afrin After the invasion of Afrin, the occupying Turkish army and its mercenary allies have been responsible of all type of horrendous crimes.

The last act of the Turkish cultural genocide in Afrin
After the invasion of Afrin, the occupying Turkish army and its mercenary allies have been responsible of all type of horrendous crimes.

Not only did they murder, kidnapp, rape, torture, massacre people but they also plunder and steel people’s goods. Likewise they have been responsible of the implementation of cultural genocide policies.

The Kurdish language was banned from the schools in Afrin, while all names of neighbourhoods and villages were changed into Turkish.

The occupying Turkish state has clearly set off on a policy of destruction of everything which is Kurdish in Afrin.

To this end, it has opened schools and centres in the attempt to turned this policy and practice into something permanent, and detach and assimilate new generations, making them aliens to their culture.

The final shameful act, though, was perhaps that reported by ANHA news agency which happened on 7 October: an ‘orphan and cultural center’ was named after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's mother, Tenzile Erdoğan. 

At the center, the Turkish state aims to educate children who have lost their fathers and mothers with Turkish and Arab teachers. The teaching will be according to the curriculum determined by the Turkish state.

Thus, the Turkish state, which is carrying out assimilation policies in all areas of the city, will continue to raise new agents and host enemies of its people in the center it opened for children who lost their families in the war.

Naming the centre after Erdoğan’s mother is yet another demonstration of the megalomaniac attitude of the Turkish president who sees himself as the new Ottoman sultan and confirms the aim of Erdoğan which is to occupy the Middle East.

The Turkish army and its mercenaries allied have attacked Afrin on 20 January 2018, and eventually occupied the city on 18 March. Hundreds of civilians were massacred by the Turkish army's high-tech weapons.

The occupation and attacks were met with heroic resistance, known as the Resistance of the Age.

After the invasion, more than 300 thousand people were forced to leave Afrin and moved to Shehba where they are continuing their resistance.

Cultural genocide institutionalizes in Afrin
Following their physical massacres in Afrin, Turkish invasion forces and their allied gangs have now tearing children, whose families they have murdered, away from their own culture in “Mother Tenzile Orphan Centers”.The invading Turkish army and their allied gangs have implemented policies of cultural genocide as well as looting, abductions, robberies, torture and murder after they occupied Afrin. As part of these cultural genocide efforts, Kurdish has been banned in schools in Afrin. Names of neighborhoods and villages have been replaced with Turkish names.

The invading Turkish state wants to erase every last detail about Kurdish identity in Afrin, and has built schools and education centers to tear new generations from their culture and assimilate them into Turkishness to cement this policy.

A “center for orphans and culture” was opened on October 7 named after Tenzile Erdogan, the Turkish President’s mother. Turkish and Arab teachers will instruct the children, whose families were killed in Turkish state attacks, according to the curriculum the Turkish state determines.

The Turkish state will thus continue to raise new agents and turn children away from their people in a center they opened for children who “lost their families in the war”, as a continuation of their assimilation policies throughout every aspect of life in the city.

Naming the center after the President’s mother, Tenzile Erdogan, shows what the self-proclaimed neo-Ottoman Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan aims for in these invasions in the Middle East.

The invading Turkish army and their gangs had launched attacks against Afrin on January 20, 2018 and hundreds of civilians had been killed by the Turkish army’s high-tech weapons in the Resistance of the Age. After the invasion, over 300.000 people from Afrin were forced to migrate to Shehba, and they continue to resist there.

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