In October 2019, the Turkish forces, supported by a coalition of anti-government armed groups, launched offensive operations against Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, leading to more than 200,000 people displaced in rapid and uncoordinated evacuations. UN Human Rights Council, “Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic,” A/HRC/43/57, 28 January 2020, https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/CoISyria/A_HRC_43_57_AEV.docx.

Fazel Hawramy, “504 villages emptied due to Turkey-PKK war: Kurdistan parliament report,” Rudaw (5 September 2020), ttps://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/05092020;

إخلاء 504 قرى بإقليم كوردستان جراء القتال بين القوات التركية وحزب العمال، رووداو (4 سبتمبر 2020)، https://www.rudaw.net/arabic/kurdistan/040920203.

If one were to take the calculations of the previous article as representative, the 25 evicted villages effecting 400 families (i.e., 2,000 persons), the average of 80 inhabitants applied to 504 villages would equal 40,320 inhabitants effected. See VDB entry “504 villages emptied,” 1 January 1992, http://www.hlrn.org/violation.php?id=p21tY6Q=.

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