The invading Turkish army and its mercenaries are continuing to commit crimes against the people and nature of the northern Syrian canton of Afrin, which they have occupied since 2018 in violation of international law.

The Human Rights Organization Afrin-Syria and local sources reported that the invading Turkish army and its mercenaries kidnapped 43 people, including five elderly and four women, in the occupied Afrin canton last July.

NAMES OF THE ABDUCTED PERSONS

Turkish intelligence service MIT and "military police", "Sultan Murad" and "political security" mercenary groups kidnapped 9 civilians in the Jindires district and its villages.

The names of the abducted persons are as follows: “Remzî Şêx Mihemed Mehmûd (32), Ebdulnîzar Xelîl (24), Mihemed Ciwan Mihemed (28), Ebdurehman Omer Hesen, Mihemed Hesen (27), Mehmûd Eli Hesen (30), Firzet Mihemed Mehmûd (28), Ebdo Mehmud Derwîş (31) and Mihemed Xelîl Riyad (26).”

The Turkish MIT, the " Shami Front" and the "civil police" mercenaries kidnapped 17 people, including four elderly, in the centres of Afrin, and the districts of Rajo and Shera.

The names of the abducted persons are as follows: “Mistefa Kemal Mihemed, Rifet Ehmed Zenkî, Xelîl Hekîm, Elî Şêx Ehmed (65), Horîk Dawûd (69), Muslim Mihemed Elo, Mistefa Murad Zîbar (65), Osman Henan (70), Hemûd Mistefa (38), Fewzî Murad, Ebdulhadî El-Omer, Basil Mihemed Nasir (30), Mihemed Emin, Mistefa Selîm Hisên (38), Menan Selîm Hisên (52), Hisên Hedik and Mistefa Mihemed (28).”

The Turkish MİT, "military police", "Ahrar Al-Sham", "Al-Hamzad" and "Muhammad Fatih" mercenary groups kidnapped 17 people, including four women in the Sherawa and Mabata districts and villages: “Mesûd Izedîn Birîmo (53). ), Seydo Reşad Elî (37), Henan Omer Misto (35), Hadi Ednan Misto (34), Mihemed Hemîd Nasir (58), Hisên Ebud Hemo (45), Ehmed Ebdo (30), Adil Bêrem (55), Ehmed Birîmko (60), Emin Elî, Cemîl Murad Mihemed (55), Mistefa Ferîd Cemal (20), Midhet Murad Mihemed (63).”

The abducted women are Ruqeye Mistefa, Hêvîn Hemîd, Henîfe Îbrahîm and Esûm Mihemed Elîko.

5 PEOPLE KILLED LAST MONTH

The Human Rights Organization Afrin-Syria reported that 5 people, 3 of whom were women, were killed last month.

On July 5, the body of a person named Ebdurehman Îso who lived in the Merat village of Afrin Canton was found in a well near the village.

Cihan Omer Berekat (23) was found dead in his home in the Çuban village of the Rajo district. The young man, father of one, was claimed to have committed suicide.

On July 11, 17-year-old Mihemed Dîb was found dead. According to information obtained from the reports, the young woman allegedly hanged herself, yet she had bruises and beating marks on many parts of her body.

Sources in the region reported that a Turkey-backed mercenary leader killed his wife in the village of Şêx Bilo in the Rajo region.

The Human Rights Organization Afrin-Syria also revealed that the invading Turkish army put up walls in some villages of the Afrin Canton last month. Furthermore, 3,300 olive trees were cut down in Rajo, Shera, Shiye and Jindires districts.

COLONIAL HOUSES

The Turkish army and its mercenaries built colonial houses on the fields of the displaced population in the village of Sidank in the Jindires district.

According to the Human Rights Organization, almost 40 colonial houses have been built since last month.

The colonial houses in the region are being constructed on a field of ​​4 hectares in an area between the Hemîlk and Rifetiyê villages of the Jindires district. These fields are alleged to belong to brothers Mecîd and Murad Menan, who live in the village of Şêxutka.

“Ebdo Zemzem”, the mercenary leader of the "Nureddin Zengi Movement", supervises a project which receives financial support from Qatari-Kuwaiti organizations. A house on the road to the Hemam village in the Jindires district is used as the headquarters of a clandestine organization called 'Islamic Organization'.