Bulbul (Arabic: بلبل) is a village in northern Syria, administratively part of the Aleppo Governorate, located northwest of Aleppo near the Turkish border. Nearby localities include Maydan Ikbis to the west, Rajo to the southwest and Maabatli to the south.
Population
Bulbul is the administrative center of Nahiya Bulbul of the Afrin District.
According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Bulbul had a population of 1,742 in the 2004 census. The town is also the administrative center of the Bulbul nahiyah of the Afrin District, consisting of 34 villages with a combined population of 12,573.[1]
As part of the ongoing Turkish demographic policies in its occupation of Northern Syria, while only 15 of the original Kurdish households remain in the town, 340 new families have been settled, all of them Syrian Turkmen.[2]
^ abGeneral Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Aleppo Governorate. (in Arabic)
^Rojava Information Center. “Turkey's Track Record: The Occupation of Afrin.” Rojava Information Center. Rojava IC, July 5, 2021. https://rojavainformationcenter.com/storage/2019/11/Turkeys-track-record-The-occupation-of-Afrin.pdf .
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