Despite paying a ransom, the fate of 12 kidnapped young men remains unknown in Afrin

Afrin – North-Press Agency

Since the Turkish military and its affiliated armed groups took control over the Syrian-Kurdish region of Afrin, they have used the most brutal methods of intimidating and displacing the indigenous people of the region, including kidnapping and ransom where they do not differentiate between the elderly, women or children.

The fate of 12 young men from Muabatli district remains unknown, since 15 months ago when they were kidnapped by those armed groups; while the people asserted to North-Press that the kidnappers were the Turkish affiliated armed groups, who control over the region.

On 16 September 2018, the village of Amra of Muabatli district in Afrin region witnessed the kidnapping of twelve young men by the Turkish military and its affiliated armed group.

North-Press obtained the names of these young men from local sources, as follows: (Rezan Ahmad Amouri – Khoshnav Naasan – Firas Kalkawi – Jenkiz Mustafa Naasan – Ramadan Hanif Maho – Masoud Majeed Kalkawi – Hammouda Khulousi Jaafar – Ibish Muhammad Maho – Hussein Ahmed Kalkawi – Idris Mustafa Naasan – Ahmad Muhammad Ibish – Rashid Sabri Maho).

After the kidnapping of these young men, the kidnappers baptized to demand a ransom for releasing them, and they demanded huge sums of money from the families of the kidnapped people; and despite the families’ paying these huge sums of money for their release, these young men were not released and their fate remains unknown until today.