Local media sources reported that the security forces of the “Hamzat” Division, one of the formations of the New Syrian Army under the name of the “76th Division,” have settled Uighur fighters and their families in the homes of displaced Kurds in the village of Maarsat al-Khatib (Maarsaka) in the countryside of Afrin. According to the website “Afrin Now”, three houses occupied by settlers were evacuated from the town of Meng in the northern countryside of Aleppo, one of which belongs to the citizen Bashir Haj Yousef, to house the Uyghur fighters and their families, knowing that these houses originally belonged to the forcibly displaced residents of the village.
This action comes amid a wide debate on social media about reports that the transitional government in Damascus is seeking to naturalize more than 40,000 foreign fighters within the ranks of HTS with Syrian nationality, “as a reward and appreciation for their jihad and fighting within the ranks of Tahrir al-Sham previously,” according to what is circulating. This raises fears of possible repercussions on the fate of the Syrian people inside and outside the country.
The source pointed out that this step comes as a continuation of the naturalization process, as foreign fighters are resettled in the homes of forcibly displaced Kurdish citizens in the occupied countryside of Afrin.
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