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Form independent committees specializing in property issues to look into complaints and allegations that may be submitted in the future, regarding violations and abuses that have taken place across Syria, including the “Olive Branch” and “Peace Spring” operations areas.

Establish the supremacy of international covenants and charters over domestic laws in the new Syrian constitution, to be drafted under the auspices of the United Nations (UN), particularly treaties that underscore human rights and fundamental freedoms, such as the right to own property, and especially treaties ratified by Syria, and authorizing the internal judiciary to apply these treaties to cases under-observation.

To Parties in the Syrian Conflict, UN Bodies, and the Syrian Constitutional Committee.

The interviews were carried out in person or online, over February and March 2022. All the interviewees are internally displaced persons (IDPs), who attempted to restore their homes and properties, seized following Operation Peace Spring. In this report, STJ presents extensive accounts, obtained from seven witnesses. Additionally, the factions frequently resorted to intimidation and blackmail to confiscate properties. This pretext goes against local property norms, whereby the majority of property sale, purchase, and ownership transactions across Syria, and particularly in the areas targeted by the offensive, were carried out under oral contracts based on reciprocal trust among locals. The factions backed property seizures with several pretexts, most notably that the occupants of the property did not possess documents that prove their ownership. Writing was spray painted on dozens of houses, highlighting the names of factions or factions’ commanders, branding these homes as seized. On 22 April 2021, STJ published a report documenting the looting of properties over the first days of the operation.

The disappointment of the returning families can be traced back to the large-scale violations of property rights that occurred in the aftermath of the offensive. However, the returning families told Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) that the promises made by Turkey, the local council, and the armed opposition groups operating in the region were misleading, made only to blind public opinion to reality. Several families took the daring decision and returned, determined to restore their properties. Simultaneously, Turkish officials and the Turkey-founded Ras al-Ayn Local Council called for people to head back home. When the area recovered relative calm, the displaced families repeatedly demanded to be allowed to return to their original places of residence. This number hiked to more than 175,000 by 22 October, including approximately 80,000 children. The hostilities forced over 100,000 people to flee the targeted area by 11 October 2019. In October 2019, Turkey launched the military offensive codenamed “Peace Spring” in Syria, controlling the territories stretching between the areas of Ras al-Ayn/Serê Kaniyê and Tal Abyad.