Category: Publications

Türkiye and affiliated SNA armed groups used property seizures and destruction as a tool to forcibly displace the three areas’ indigenous populations. 1.   Executive Summary: This report examines the systematic violations by the Syrian National Army (SNA) and Turkish military...

PÊL, Hevdestî Association, and STJ document large-scale looting and pillage operations perpetrated by Turkey-backed armed groups affiliated with the opposition Syrian National Army in Ras al-Ayn/Serê Kaniyê city after the Turkey-led Operation “Peace Spring” On 9 October 2019, Turkey launched...

On 9 October 2019, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the start of the military operation code-named “Peace Spring”. The incursion targeted and led to the Turkish military and Türkiye-backed armed groups of the Syrian National Army’s (SNA) complete control...

This joint report builds on 40 testimonies and statements collected between March and May 2023 on gross human rights violations in the Afrin region in the extreme northwest of Syria. The testimonies were collected in the aftermath of the February...

The adverse consequences—pertaining to both mortality rates and material losses—of the earthquake that shook large parts of Syria and Türkiye on 26 February 2023 were immeasurable. However, the toll the tremors took on Syrian communities remains the heaviest due to...

Executive Summary Taking over the Kurdish-majority Afrin District following the 2018 Operation Olive Branch, Turkish-backed Syrian armed opposition groups committed various patterns of human rights violations against the area’s original inhabitants. According to the periodic reports of the Independent International...