Afrinpost – Special
Islamic militias affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood continue to use kidnapping as a means of blackmail, pressure and restrictions on the remainder of the Kurdish indigenous population in the occupied Afrin region, with the aim of expelling them from their homes for the benefit of Islamic settlers loyal to them from various conflict areas in Syria, the latest of which is Idlib.
In this context, on Friday February 14th, an Islamic militia affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood kidnapped two Kurdish citizens from the village of Anqaleh in Afrin region, and took them to an unknown destination, with the aim of obtaining a financial ransom from their families.
The Afrinpost correspondent in the “Shieh / Sheikh Al-Hadid” side said that the militia “Saad bin Abi Waqas” kidnapped both “Izzat Muhammad Bakr” and “Izzat Bakr,” who are cousins, from their house in the village of “Anqaleh” of the district, and took them to an unknown destination.
The reporter indicated that the kidnappers communicate with the families of the Kurdish citizens, and ask them to pay the sum of five thousand dollars each, in exchange for their release.
Islamic militias rely on kidnapping as a means of obtaining money, which is one of the methods they followed since the beginning of the occupation of Afrin, while the Turkish occupation supervises these operations as one of the methods of displacing the Kurds and preventing the displaced from returning.
The “Human Rights Organization in Afrin Province” had revealed a two-year statistic for violations of the Turkish occupation army and Islamic militias affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, in conjunction with the second annual tragedy of the start of the Turkish invasion of Afrin region, where the organization issued a statement between a gathering of hundreds of Afrin refugees in Shahba, in the sixth On the tenth of January, in Sardam Camp, and around the kidnappers, the statement said that more than 6000 civilians of both sexes were kidnapped, and the fate of more than 3300 kidnappers remains unknown.
