(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of Afrin's displaced on Thursday have demanded the Kurdish militias to allow them returning back home, sources said.
Tens of displaced families who settled in the town of Tel Tam in Hasaka province said the YPG militia is preventing them from leaving the area and going back to Afrin or northern Aleppo.
The displaced seek to go home as Human Rights Watch says that Turkey-backed rebels have seized, looted and destroyed their property after taking control of the region in March.
Turkey’s military and its rebel allies launched a cross-border operation into Syria earlier this year and drove fighters from the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia out of the town of Afrin and the surrounding area.
Ankara sees the YPG as a terrorist group and an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged a three-decade insurgency on Turkish soil. Turkey has threatened to drive the YPG from the entire length of its border, according to Reuters.
The United Nations said 137,000 people were displaced by the Afrin offensive, another large population movement in the seven-year long Syrian conflict which has forced more than half of the country’s pre-war population from their homes.
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