Afrinpost – Special
The militants of the Islamic militias affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood do not spare an effort to steal and plunder the Kurdish citizens of Afrin region, and the last thing they invented was to communicate with the remittance offices in the occupied Afrin, to obtain information about the amounts transferred through them, and to target the citizens who received the remittances.
In the context, gunmen on Friday \ 31st of July, which coincided with the first days of Eid al-Adha, kidnapped the Kurdish citizen “Hadiyat Taher Omar” who is a citizen of “Bulbul” district, against the background of receiving a sum of money from one of her relatives outside Afrin city.
The gunmen looted the transferred money, and released her two days after the kidnapping, so that it became clear that there was a relationship between the remittances office and the militants in Bulbul district.
The Turkish occupation authorities follow a policy of impoverishment against the indigenous citizens in the occupied Afrin region, with the aim of pushing them displace and leave their homes, knowing that remittances, are considered a means of securing the necessities of life and living.
On the other hand, and in another method of imposing royalties, the Turkish occupation authorities imposed on owners of vehicles in the occupied Afrin region, installing new plates on all cars and vehicles, and obliging their owners to register and pay fees and taxes in the Turkish currency instead of the Syrian national currency.
Since the beginning of the occupation of Afrin, the occupation authorities have notified the people of Afrin who have vehicles of the need to register them with the transportation department that was formed under the occupation, and a number of vehicles have been confiscated on the pretext that their owners are Turkish, and that they were stolen at earlier times according to their claim, despite the existence of documents proving that their owners purchased them under regular contracts and certificates of origin attached to the mechanism.
About 200 cars were seized and sent to Turkey, according to private sources on which the human rights organization Afrin – Syria relied, and in the context of the innovative methods of collecting money for citizens, what happened in the “Bulbula” district, where the “Failaq Al-Sham” militia extorted Kurdish citizens in villages financially, on the pretext that they appeared in a photo taken 3 years ago while they were attending the opening ceremony of a Kurdish party office.
The citizens who appeared in the picture were asked to pay 500 Turkish liras, or their files will be handed over to the “Military Police” militia, while the citizens were forced to pay the required amount.
