Dr. Yousef’s Response to Bashar al-Assad and the Ba’ath Party’s Claims: Conclusive Historical Evidence of Continuous Kurdish Presence in Syria

A prevailing notion has circulated for some time, promoting the erroneous view that the Kurds in the ‘Afrin region arrived there just over a century ago and lack deep historical roots in the area. According to this claim, the Kurds fled to ‘Afrin to escape the oppression of the Ottoman Empire, which forced them to migrate from their villages in Turkey. Proponents of this view further argue that the term “Kurd Mountain” is a modern invention and was not historically associated with the region.