Turkey transfers 9 Syrians to prison in Urfa
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – Turkish authorities transferred on Saturday nine Syrians, including a young woman, from the areas it occupies in northern Syria to Turkey.
The Turkish authorities, in cooperation with the Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, aka the Syrian National Army (SNA), transferred nine Syrian detainees from a prison in the city of Tel Abyad in northern Raqqa, north Syria, to one of its prisons in the Turkish territory.
A source of the Military Police, a faction affiliated to the Turkish forces, told North Press that the Turkish intelligence transferred nine detainees, including a young woman, from a prison in Tel Abyad to one of its prisons in the Turkish province of Urfa.
The source said that the nine people were arrested during April and May while attempting to cross into Turkey from the village of al-Issawi, east of Tel Abyad.
The city of Tel Abyad and its countryside have been under the Turkish occupation and the control of the SNA factions since 2019 following the so-called Peace Spring military operation launched by Turkey and SNA factions to push away the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) from the border under the pretext of protecting “the Turkish national security.”
The source further explained that the Military Police investigated the detainees, and claimed that they had come from areas held by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) with the intention of illegally cross into Turkey and then to seek refuge in a European country.
However, and based on documents they prepared, the detainees were charged with threatening the Turkish national security and planning retaliatory operations, according to the source.
He indicated that based on the investigation record, the Turkish intelligence transferred the detainees through the military gate of Tel Abyad to one of the prisons in the Turkish province of Urfa.
Although dangerous, Syrian people, keep attempting to use the Turkish border and territory to seek refuge in Europe escaping the war-torn country and looking for a better future for their children.
In November, the Turkish intelligence transferred over 60 Syrian detainees from prisons belonging to the Turkish-backed SNA factions in Tel Abyad, Ras al-Ain, Afrin, and Azaz to their prisons in the Turkish territories. They were charged with affiliation to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and posing a threat to Turkish national security.