SYRIA, ROJAVA, AFRIN 2025 Let’s begin at the beginning. Thirty years ago, my parents fled Syria. For legal reasons, I can’t go into every detail. Let’s just say… communism. (I’m joking, of course.) The truth is, my parents knew there was no future for Kurds in Syria, and so they decided that Europe would be their best chance. Until 2010, we lived in the Netherlands without papers, which meant we couldn’t visit our family in Afrin. And after 2010, well… the brutal war made it impossible anyway. Then came December...
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