The occupying Turkish army and allied mercenaries have kidnapped six people in the occupied Afrin region in the last six days.

According to sources from the northern Syrian city, Turkish intelligence agents abducted two people from Bilbile and Shera districts on March 19. The two civilians were identified as Îslam Mistefa Mihemed from the village of Qeregulê in Bilbile, and Mistefa Eyûp Hiso from the village of Meydankê in Shera. According to reports, Mihemed and Hiso had previously been held in Rai prison for over three years. Their aftermath is not known.

On the other hand, an armed group kidnapped a young woman named Fîdan Ehmed Yazo from the village of Chema which is occupied by the Sulayman Shah (Al-Amshat) mercenaries. A ransom of 20,000 dollars was asked for the release of Fîdan Ehmed Yazo, whose father had also been kidnapped, by the so-called “Military Police”, six months ago.

In the Rajo district, 30-year-old Bekîr Emîn from the village of Umero was arrested at a checkpoint in Mahmudiyah neighborhood and taken to an unknown location on March 21. He has not been heard from since.

The “Military Police” mercenaries, on the other hand, kidnapped two people, one being from the village of Gemrûk, on March 22. The two civilians were named as 50-year-old Hesen Ebdo Şêxo and 61-year-old Ednan Şêxo.

Turkey has established a regime of terror and corruption in all the regions it has occupied, particularly in Afrin, which has been invaded since March 2018. Crimes such as kidnapping, execution, torture, looting, forced migration have become rampant in the city, which has become a hotbed for war crimes.

According to what the Human Rights Organization Afrin - Syria documented, more than 8,063 civilians were kidnapped during four years of occupation, the fate of more than a third of them is still unknown, and hundreds of them were released in exchange for a huge ransom.

More than 655 civilians lost their lives, including 498 people who were killed as a result of the Turkish bombing, 90 lost their lives under torture, and more than 696 were wounded as a result of the Turkish bombing, including 303 children and 213 women.

More than 333.900 olive trees and various forest trees have been cut down, and more than a third of the area designated for cultivation, estimated at more than 11 thousand hectares, has been burned since the occupation of Afrin.