‘Turkey is trying to revive a new Ottoman empire’

Turkey occupied the city of Afrin on March 18 last year after an attack on January 20 of the same year.

ANHA agency conducted an interview with Member of the diplomatic relations committee of (PYD) in Gire Spi canton Esmail al-Qewas.

In the interview, Esmail touched upon Turkey’s construction of the isolation wall in Afrin, for more than a week noting that this wall aims to annex Afrin to Turkey and separate it from Syrian territory.

He said in the same context, “Turkey’s goal of building a wall around the Syrian city of Afrin is to occupy Syria with the help of mercenaries.”

He added, “Russia is helping Turkey to occupy parts of Syrian territory and is trying to restore the glory of its Ottoman empire and occupy areas in the Middle East.”

Esmail al-Qewas criticized the Syrian regime because it did not express any clear and frank position towards the occupation of Turkey in the north of Syria.”

He said in the same context that the actions of the Turkish state and its mercenaries in terms of demographic change, displacement of indigenous people, looting, and murder are contrary to international law and violation of human rights.

He said that the people will not abandon the city of Afrin and its people, and expressed their willingness to liberate them from the occupation.