Severe attacks on Kurds in Aleppo

Since yesterday, Wednesday, the Islamist regime in Damascus has been attacking two districts of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. This is reported by the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP), citing local sources. According to these sources, the districts of Sheikh Maksud and Ashafiye are being shelled with heavy artillery, tanks, rocket launchers, and combat drones. Meanwhile, 300 houses in these Kurdish-inhabited neighborhoods of Aleppo have been destroyed. “There are no heavy weapons on the Kurdish side because the SDF military units were withdrawn after an agreement in the spring and only lightly armed police remain,” recalled STP Middle East expert Dr. Kamal Sido today in Göttingen. “Civilians were ordered to leave their homes and apartments. According to Kurdish sources, there are already at least eight dead and 48 injured, including women and children.” The Islamist regime is supported primarily by Turkey, Qatar, and other Arab Gulf states. The US, Germany, and Russia also support it, albeit less openly.

Following the attempted genocide of the Alawite population of Syria in March and the Druze population in southern Syria in July last year, the regime is now intensifying its attacks on the Kurds: "The Kurds attacked in Aleppo have already been displaced several times in recent years. They have had to change their places of residence again and again because they were attacked either directly by the Turkish army or by Islamist militias supported by Turkey,“ Sido explained. ”Against this background, we repeatedly warn against viewing the criminal regime in Damascus as a relatively harmless alternative to Assad: Neither German politicians nor the German media should make this mistake."

A few days ago, the STP became aware that the Deutsche Welle Academy was planning to invite Syrian propaganda minister Dr. Hamza Al-Mustafa for an interview. “His so-called Ministry of Information and the media it controls are inciting hatred on all channels against Kurds, Druze, Alawites, and other groups that reject the radical Islamist ideology of those in power,” Sido reported. “We have called on Deutsche Welle to exercise the utmost caution in such meetings. The regime's chief propagandist must not be given a platform to spread his hatred and justify the crimes of the Islamists.”

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