Afrinpost – Special
The occupied Kurdish region of Afrin witnessed an increase in the kidnapping and arrests campaign carried out by the Turkish occupation and its Islamic militia affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood last week, against the remaining residents of the region, under pretexts aimed at pressuring the indigenous population to consolidate the demographic change in favor of Turkey’s settlers, According to the monitoring of the “Afrinpost” reporter.
On Friday, the Failaq Al-Sham militia kidnapped citizen Hafez Barakat while tending his sheep in his village “Kabashin” in the Shirawa district, under the pretext that he was in the prohibited zone and took him to an unknown destination.
Gunmen from the group called “Abu Shakra” of the militia of “Sultan Murad” militia kidnapped the citizen “Luqman Abdo Sheikh Mouss / 41 years old from his house in the village of Qestaleh Kishk of the Shara / Sharan district, on charges of belonging to the Democratic Union Party and took him to an unknown destination, knowing that the real reason is his refusal to evacuate his house at the request of the gunmen, who want to use it as a military headquarters due to its location.
In Jenderes District, the Turkish occupation intelligence, last week, arrested the citizen “Ali Shero” and his entire family, who are from the Arab component, from his house in the Zaydiyah neighborhood of the city of Afrin, where the house was stormed and searched by the devices for explosives and police dogs, and then the Turkish intelligence released his wife and children. Ali Shiro, 65 years old, is from the village of Kokabeh. He suffers from a poor health condition, as he suffers from diabetes and heart disease.
The Turkish occupation intelligence also arrested the citizen Ahmed Rashid in the city of Afrin on charges of dealing with the previous self-administration, and the citizen Ahmed from the people of the village of “Ain Hajar” of the “Mobata \ Maabatli” district.
In addition, on Friday, the group called “Walid Kadrou” affiliated with the militia of the “Al-Shamiya Front” kidnapped the Kurdish citizen “Mohammed Ezzat Khalil” from his house in the village of “Ma’arskeh, which belongs to the district of Shara / Sharan, demanding a financial ransom of three thousand dollars for his release.
