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Abdi: ISIS reorganizes in the Turkish occupied zone
...ving the all-clear, he said. " ISIS is reorganizing," Abdi warned. The main field for reorganization, he said, is the Turkish occupied zone in the north and northwest of Syria. "Together with coalition forces, we have carried out some operation against ISIS in Serêkaniyê (Ras al-Ain) and Girê Spî (Tal Abyad) and killed its members," Abdi said, without giving further details. He described the occupied zone as the "new headquarters of ISIS" where the attacks against the self-governed areas and beyond were planned. Serêkaniyê and Girê Spî have been under Turkish occupation since October 2019 based on the...
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Torture prison in Serêkaniyê
...m the dungeons of the Turkish occupation forces reports on the situation in occupied Serêkaniyê and the torture in the detention centers. Turkey and its mercenary troops of the so-called Syrian National Army (SNA) have occupied the northern Syrian cities of Serêkaniyê (ar. Ras al-Ain) and Girê Spî (Tal Abyad). Since then, the Turkish army and the SNA, recruited from the remnants of ISIS and other jihadist groups, among others, have exercised a reign of terror. Again and again, people are abducted and tortured under fabricated charges or brought to Turkey in violation of international law and sentenced ...
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SDF: 57 ISIS members arrested in June
...s, assassinations, and killing civilians. However, the Monitoring Office recorded 13 assaults and bombing resulted in killing and injuring 21 civilians. The de-escalation line: The Turkish occupation and its mercenaries continued to escalate shelling along “the de-escalation line” in the areas of Tal Abyad, Ain Issa, Tal Tamir, Zarkan, Derek countryside, Kobane, Amuda, and Manbij. The Monitoring Office has recorded more than 565 violations, including more than 20 infiltration attempts by the occupation and its mercenaries. Turkey continued to cut off the water coming from the Aluk plant to al-Hasaka...
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SDF: Eight mercenaries killed in Gire Spi
...enaries, destroying of two thermal monitoring cameras, two trenches, two military vehicles and a tank. The Media Center of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) released a statement providing information on the latest wave of attacks by the Turkish army and allied mercenaries in the occupied Gire Spi (Tal Abyad) region and Ain Issa. According to the statement, the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries conducted a series of heavy weapons attacks targeting several villages in Tal Abyad, the M4 international road as well as the vicinity of Ain Issa between June 21st and July 1st. SDF stated that the villa...
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SDF announces death of three fighters
...ian Democratic Forces (SDF) were killed in Wednesday night's clashes in the outskirts of Ain Issa. This was announced by the press office of the multi-ethnic alliance on Saturday. The fighting had broken out as a result of artillery attacks on villages and wheat silos between Ain Issa and Girê Spî (Tal Abyad). The area had already come under widespread shelling on Tuesday. A third member of the SDF was also martyred on the same day, according to reports. According to the SDF statement, the fighter died as a result of injuries he had sustained nearly four years ago during the liberation offensive in Ra...
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Turkish bombardment targets civilian settlements in Girê Spî
The invading Turkish army bombed six villages west of Girê Spî, injuring civilians and damaging houses. The Turkish army shelled the villages of Erida, Birkitk, Kobirlik, Bir Zinar and the warehouses in Qezeli and Evdiko villages in the Turkish occupied Girê Spî (Tal Abyad) city in northern Syria. The occupation forces simultaneously bombed the international M4 highway and the town of Ain Issa. As a result of the bombardment, many civilians were injured, and their homes and property were severely damaged. The number of injured civilians and the extent of the damage...
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Rojava commemorates victims of the ISIS massacre in Kobanê
...ization ISIS, with backing from Ankara. The massacre occurred after the successful defense of the city against ISIS attacks. On January 26, 2015, the YPG/YPJ had declared Kobanê liberated. The city had been destroyed, but reconstruction had begun. Ten days after the YPG and YPJ liberated Girê Spî (Tal Abyad) on June 15 of the same year and advanced on Raqqa, the self-proclaimed "capital of the caliphate," ISIS jihadists disguised in YPG uniforms entered Kobanê from two sides. 60 ISIS terrorists from Turkey had passed the Mürşitpınar border crossing, which was completely closed at the time, with the k...
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International Initiative: Defend Kurdistan Against Turkish Occupation
...syrians, Turkmens, and Armenians, having led a revolution together that established an Autonomous Administration that is democratic and empowers women. In response, Turkey has used jihadist militants to directly attack these areas of Rojava including Afrin, Azaz, Jarablus, Sere Kaniye and Gire Spi (Tal Abyad), in the hopes of occupying and destroying the achievements of this women’s-led Administration. During these ongoing occupations, Turkey has engineered demographic change, systematic rape, and enslavement of women, causing mass displacement of the large Kurdish and other civilian populations, as pa...
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Statement of the peace delegation banned from leaving Germany for South Kurdistan
... in southern Kurdistan or Rojava (northern Syria). In 2018, Turkey annexed the previously self-governing canton of Afrin in a weeks-long war against the People's and Women's Defense Units (YPG and YPJ). And in October 2019, with the support of Islamist groups, the towns and regions around Girê Spî (Tal Abyad) and Serêkanîyê (Ras al-Ain) were occupied. Thus, Turkey has become an occupying state in Syria, which also makes no signs of withdrawing from these regions. Since the beginning of the year, Turkey has now also intensified its aggressive war strategy on South Kurdistan. The goal is the displacemen...
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YPG roots out ISIS cell trained by Turkish MIT in Shaddadi
...tralized," the statement said. According to initial investigation results, the members of the cell were in the Turkish capital Ankara from 2017 onwards for "training" at the MIT. Among other things, they were tasked with intelligence gathering in the cities of Serêkaniyê (Ras al-Ain) and Girê Spî (Tal Abyad), which have since been occupied by Turkey. Specifically, they had provided the MIT with information on individuals from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. According to YPG information, the cell was composed of three Iraqis and two Syrians. Weapons, documents, cell phones and o...
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Civilian killed under torture in Turkish occupied Afrin
...ner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet warned. While human rights and international humanitarian law violations against civilians continue across Syria, the UN Human Rights Office has noted an alarming pattern in recent months of grave violations in these areas, including in Afrin, Ras al-Ain, and Tal Abyad, where increased killings, kidnappings, unlawful transfers of people, seizures of land and properties and forcible evictions have been documented. From 1 January to 14 September 2020, the UN Human Rights Office verified the deaths of at least 116 civilians as a result of improvised explosive devic...
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Mercenary killed by fellows in Turkish-occupied Gire Spi
... Spi, a former member of ISIS was killed by fellows from the Siqur al-Suna group he was affiliated to. According to information obtained from local sources, a mercenary by the name of Ebû Xedice, a former member of ISIS, joined the Siqur al-Suna mercenary group after the occupation of the Gire Spi (Tal Abyad) city by the Turkish state. Reports say that Ebû Xedice has been killed by fellows from the Siqur al-Suna group. The jihadist was shot dead in front of his house, while his wife was injured as a result of the attack.
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Residents in Gire Spi Camp demand water crisis to be resolved
...oved to these camps. Now, it also cuts our water.” The administration of the camp, on the other hand, strives to provide water reservoirs to meet the citizens’ need. Gire Spi Camp hosts 3530 people who were forced to abandon their lands subsequent to Turkey’s invasion attacks on Gire Spi (Tal Abyad) on 9 October 2019.
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Dozens of Syrian prisoners of war sentenced under article 302 in Turkey
...h Geneva Convention." It is unclear how many Syrian nationals in total have been taken to Turkey in the course of the invasion. Authorities are maintaining silence. According to Mustafa Vefa, the arrests of Syrian prisoners of war always follow the same pattern. "People usually come from Girê Spî (Tal Abyad), Serêkaniyê (Ras al-Ain), but also from other areas of northeastern Syria, such as Til Temir (Tal Tamr). The arrests by SNA militiamen usually take place outside the combat zone, in some cases right on their doorsteps. Immediately afterward, the SNA people turn to the families of the detainees wit...
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Street in Qamishlo named after Armenian revolutionary Nubar Ozanyan
...lmmaker Yılmaz Güney, a pioneer of Kurdish cinema, and was even his bodyguard in Paris for a while. In 2014, Ozanyan moved to South Kurdistan, where he fought against the Turkish occupation. In Rojava, he took part in the Siluk resistance in the circle of internationalists. The town near Girê Spî (Tal Abyad) was liberated from the rule of various Islamist groups in the summer of 2015 as part of a YPG offensive. After having stayed in Dersim in northern Kurdistan for a while, he returned to Rojava. On August 14, 2017, he died as a TIKKO commander fighting the jihadist terrorist militia Islamic State (I...
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Civilians including women kidnapped in a village of occupied Gire Spi
Crimes against humanity continue unabated in the Syrian territories occupied by the Turkish army and allied jihadist groups. According to an ANHA report, the Turkish-backed mercenaries on Tuesday kidnapped several civilians from the village of Hemam Turkmen in the occupied Girê Spî (Tal Abyad) Canton. The names of some of the abducted civilians are as follows: Mihemed El Keraz from the El Bo Xalid tribe, Cîhad Al Berho and his two brothers from the El Bacêrat tribe, Ehmed Ubêd El Hemdan, Site El Dewan and Najah El Ebid. In the regions occupied by the Turkish state, crimes against huma...
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Turkish state builds another military base in Ain Issa
...its military deployment to the new bases, including heavy weapons, observation cameras and radars. Ditches and trenches dug near the M4 highway had previously been documented. The occupant Turkish state started to build military bases after attacking the western villages of Ain Issa and Girê Spî (Tal Abyad) for 3 months. The Syrian and Russian forces deployed on the southern front of the M4 highway continue to remain silent about the crimes committed by the occupant Turkish state. It is also reported that the Turkish state, which has established a new base in the northwest of Ain Issa, is preparing...
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Two children killed by explosion of unexploded bomb in Girê Spî
In occupied Girê Spî in northern Syria, two children were killed when an unexploded bomb detonated. In the Turkish occupied zone of Girê Spî (Tal Abyad) in northern Syria, two children were killed when an unexploded bomb exploded. The Rojava-based ANHA news agency reports that the two victims are two minors aged twelve and fifteen. According to the report, the detonation occurred in the village of Um Huweysh in western Girê Spî. The children were...
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SOHR reports violations in “Peace Spring” areas in February
...the “Sultan Murad”, which resulted in injuries on both sides. Meanwhile, the reasons behind these clashes remained unknown. The fourth incident took place in Ras al-Ain city, where clashes took place between al-Hamza Division and civilian police, while the latest incident took place in the town of Tal Abyad, north of Raqqa, where clashes took place between members of the Al-Jabha al-Shamiya faction, leaving three members injured, amid panic among civilians as a result of clashes in residential neighbourhoods. Ongoing violations with Turkish consent People in “Peace Spring” areas in Al-Hasakah and Al...
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PYD Women’s Council: Let every day be a women's day
...and inhuman methods. Foremost of these is the fascist Turkish state, which has deliberately targeted women since the victory of women means the victory of freedom and democracy. The Turkish state followed methods of oppression and murder against women in Afrin, Serekaniye (Ras-al-Ain) and Gire Spi (Tal Abyad) after their occupation and forced displacement of the people. Still, this did not reduce the determination and struggle of women, but rather made them resist more resolutely for freedom and for a return to these lands after their liberation from terrorism. We congratulate all the women in the wor...