Turkish forces transfer 5 Syrian detainees to Turkey
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – Turkish authorities and the Military Police of the Turkish-backed opposition factions, also known as the Syrian National Army (SNA), transferred five detainees from a prison in the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) north of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, to another in the city of Şanlıurfa in Turkey.
An opposition military source told North Press that the detainees were arrested in March when the Military Police and the SNA security apparatus carried out arrests in the village of al-Mabrouka in the countryside of Sere Kaniye.
The Turkish forces and their affiliated SNA factions occupied Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad after the so-called “Peace Spring” military operation in October 2019.
The Military Police investigated the detainees and charged them with being members of a security cell. The detainees include three Kurdish men from Sere Kaniye, they worked as farmers.
The source noted that the Military Police took the detainees to the so-called “Counter-Terrorism Center” in Sere Kaniye, and then the Turkish Intelligence forces transferred them at midnight through the Sere Kaniye gate to a prison in Şanlıurfa Province, which might put them at risk of long imprisonment.