The invading gangs Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defines as “Kuvayi Milliye” (“National Forces”) have caused the death of an elderly woman in a house they broke into for robbery in Afrin.

Reports say the invading gangs entered a home in the Birj Abdullah village at 02:00 Friday night and tied up Nazmi Muhammed Sido and his wife Fatma Osman Hesen.

The gangs then tied up Sido’s mother Eysh Hanan Rahme who was sleeping in another room, and stole all the money and the women’s gold jewellery from the house.

The gang members then bolted the door from the outside as they fled. The neighbors rushed to the house in the morning to the family’s screams and found Eysh Hanan Rahme dead, and Sido and Hesen tied up still.

The late elderly woman’s son and daughter-in-law pointed to the gangs as the perpetrators of the attack.

The family said the gangs not only stole their money and gold, but they also beat them up and caused the death of their mother.

Severe rights violations and war crimes are committed systemically in the Turkish state occupied Kurdish lands. Civilians are abducted almost every day in the Afrin region, people are tortured and their property is confiscated.

Thousands of people from Afrin have suffered a similar fate since the invasion attacks that started on January 20. Massacres, executions, torture, robbery, looting, harassment and rape are only some of the war crimes the Turkish state has committed in the region.

Amnesty International issued a statement by early August and mentioned the severe human rights violations in Afrin, calling Turkey the “invasion force” and stating that they are responsible. Human Rights Watch issued a report in mid-June and stated that Turkey-backed groups in occupied Afrin were confiscating property from Kurdish civilians and looting and pillaging in the city.