Turkish-backed faction arrests Kurdish women in Syria’s Afrin

AFRI, Syria (North Press) – On Tuesday, Turkish-backed armed al-Amshat faction arrested two Kurdish women after they returned from Lebanon to their village in the northern countryside of Afrin, northwest Syria. 

“Militants of the faction arrested 25-year-old Delvin Jamil Osman and her 20-year-old sister Fatimah after they returned from Lebanon to their village of Qermeltiq in Afrin countryside,” a local source told North Press.

The faction demanded parents of the two women, whose fate is still unknown, a ransom of 4,000 US dollars in turn for releasing them and having their conditions settled, the source added.

Meanwhile, a Turkish-backed armed faction in the Turkish-controlled city of Afrin, northwest Syria, imposed a large sum of money of $2,000 on Afrin IDPs in turn for their return to their homes in Afrin.

Turkey with the support of Turkish-backed Syrian factions launched a military operation against Afrin and its countryside in 2018 displacing more than 300,000 people towards areas in the northern countryside of Aleppo, according to Human Rights Organization in Afrin.

Reporting by Farouq Hamo