The SDF arm twists teachers in northeastern Syria to sign up on social media platforms and act like trolls to spread propaganda and misinformation
The Arab majority towns and neighbourhoods in northeastern Syria are being subjected to a rapid ideological change unleashed by the SDF, which is dominated by YPG, the Syrian wing of PKK. The PKK is classified as a terrorist group by the US, European Union and Turkey.
Shaheen said that the SDF fired three teachers, who were his colleagues, from a school in Tishreen in August 2019, and arrested one of them because they refused to participate in SDF-sponsored demonstrations. Another teacher named Fatima said the SDF has made it necessary for all applicants to first take a 45-day "closed course", in which they are exposed to the so-called "PKK principles", before they are hired in any of Raqqa's schools.
“I often asked myself and some trusted friends: What do we have to do with all this? Why are we wasting our time?” Khalil, a schoolteacher in Raqqa, received instructions from his superiors to create a WhatsApp teachers’ group and circulate the SDF's content on it.
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