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In an operation conducted jointly by Turkish intelligence and the military police, a 28-year-old civilian named Mohammad Saeed Sheikh Sidi was arrested on October 1st, 2023, at his residence in the village of Sheikhoutka in the Mobata sub-district. The arrest was made on charges of alleged association with the former Autonomous Administration in Afrin.
Notably, just a week prior to this incident, on September 26th, 2023, another civilian named Mohammad Suleiman Dado, aged 39, was detained by the military police in the Rajo sub-district. He was apprehended upon his return from the Shahba region in northern Aleppo, although the specific charges against him remain undisclosed.
afrinpost has documented 44 cases of arrests and abductions throughout the month of September 2023. Among these cases, seven women, three of whom were accompanied by their children. Notably, ten of the arrests targeted individuals who had recently returned to Afrin. Furthermore, one case of abduction occurred on Turkish territory. The documentation also recorded four cases of individuals being released from captivity.
