Turkish intelligence arrests residents of Syria’s Afrin
AFRIN, Syria (North Press) – Turkish intelligence and Turkish-backed armed factions arrested, yesterday, two residents from a village west of Afrin, north Syria.
Since Turkish-backed armed factions took control over Afrin in March of 2018, they keep up committing systematic violations against civilians in the city and its surrounding. They kill, loot, arrest and change the area demographically.
The Turkish intelligence arrested Jiwan Hikmat Selko and Abdo Ahmad Aliko, from Iska village, accusing them of dealing with the Autonomous Administration in the past, a local source told North Press.
The two residents, who were arrested on a checkpoint near Terende village, south of Afrin city, are facing unknown fate.
In late October, Turkish intelligence forces arrested an elderly man from Sariya village, in Afrin city north Syria.
In mid-October, the Turkish intelligence and its allied factions detained seven civilians, including two women, in a campaign of arrests in Afrin and its outskirts.
The city of Afrin and its villages, north of Aleppo, have been controlled by Turkish forces and the affiliated factions since March 2018.
The Afrin region has been witnessing cases of killing, kidnapping and arrest, in addition to frequent bombings, amid the inability of the factions controlling it to settle the security in the region.