The burned body of a woman named Zeyneb Ebdo was found in the village of Rota, in the Mabata district of Turkish-occupied Afrin city in northern Syria.

Zeyneb Ebdo was recently released from the prison of Turkish-backed mercenaries and her house in central Afrin was seized by Jabhat al-Shamiya mercenaries. Some of her family members were also kidnapped and their fate remains unknown.

The Turkish state, with a soldiery of jihadists and right-wing extremists, established a regime of terror over Afrin, which they occupied in March 2018. Kidnapping, looting, ransomware, and displacement have been the order of the day ever since.

According to human rights defenders, the Turkish state killed 686 civilians and kidnapped 8,455 civilians in Afrin in 4 years. The fate of nearly half of the abducted remains unknown.

For the period between July 29 and August 23, the Afrin Human Rights Organization registered 101 abductions. 17 of the abductees were women. In addition, three minors were among those abducted. Often the abductees are taken to torture chambers run by mercenaries or the MIT and released after paying ransoms. However, abductees are repeatedly tortured to death and their bodies dumped in fields or other places. This creates a climate of terror and drives the Kurdish population away.