Under threat … Turkey recruits Kurds minors in Libya's battles  

Mercenaries of the so-called Samarkand Battalion of the Turkish occupation army forced a child from the occupied Afrin canton to go to Libya to fight within groups supported by Turkey in the Arab country.

Under threat … Turkey recruits Kurds minors in Libya's battles  
9 May, 2020   06:50
 AL-AL-SHAHBA, SIMAF KHALIL

According to media reports that Turkish occupation has recruited more than 7, 000 Syrian citizen in Libya, where Ankara supports factions linked to the Muslim brotherhood.

Turkish occupation brutality extended to engage the children in the battles of Libya, where the Libyan National Army, led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar and accord forces affiliated to Fayez al-Saraj, supported by Ankara, is fighting

About month ago, the mercenaries of the so-called "Samarkand" battalion, led by mercenary Abu Jihad, had kidnapped the child, aged 15, Abdo Sheikho, from his home in Rota village, Mobata district, in the occupied Afrin canton.

A month after torturing him in various ways and methods, they threatened to kill him if he refused to go to Libya.

The uncle of the child, Abdo Sheikho, who was displaced from the occupied Afrin, Naguib Sheikho said, "Samarkand's mercenaries kidnapped my nephew more than a month ago, and threatened him if he refused to go with the mercenaries to Libya."

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Sheikho condemned the violations committed by the occupied Turkish state and its mercenaries against the residents of occupied Afrin.

At the end of his speech, Sheikho appealed to human rights organizations and the United Nations to return the child Abdo to his family.

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ANHA