Opposition groups turn clothes shop into weapons shop in Syria’s Sere Kaniye
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – Recently, Turkish-backed armed opposition groups in the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) turned a clothing store owned by a displaced former resident into a weapons shop.
Shop owner Yusuf Sheikh Hamo, who was displaced from Sere Kaniye during the Turkish invasion in October 2019, posted on his Facebook on Monday night pictures of his shop as it was before the Turkish invasion and another of the shop after it was turned into a weapons center by the Turkish-backed groups.
Turkish Armed Forces and Turkish-backed armed opposition groups took control of the cities of Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad and their surrounding countrysides in October of 2019. Since this time, residents in the region have reported many human rights abuses, including theft, looting, assault, kidnapping and murder.
Sheikh Hamo, who residents in Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, told North Press that his shop, which he opened to sell clothes two months before the Turkish operation in his city, is now occupied by Turkish-backed armed opposition groups.
Sheikh Hamo expressed his grief over the violations that are happening in his city.
“The shop has turned into a weapons center, and instead of clothes, bombs and weapons are displayed on the shelves that I have prepared for clothes!” Sheikh Hamo posted on his Facebook.