Turkey's gangs demand ransom to release one of kidnapped women in Afrin

Clashes had erupted between mercenaries of "al-Hamzat Division" and other mercenary groups also affiliated with the Turkish occupation on the 28th of last May, when one of the headquarters of “al-Hamzat” was raided, and women from Afrin were kidnapped and were found kidnapped, among them the young woman Roken Menala Mohammed, aged 28 years old.

Roken Menala Mohammed and her husband Kawa Jamil Omar, aged 34, were kidnapped from the village of Dakri belonging to Mobata district in occupied Afrin canton in Sep, 2018

The mercenaries had asked Roken to work with them, and after they refused, they kidnapped her, and then they arrested all of her family members. According to the family, Roken is being held in "al-Qalaa Prison" in the village of Basuta of Shara district in Afrin canton.

The mercenaries of al-Hamzat Division arrested Roken 's father, Manan Menala Muhammad, her brother Taher Menala Mohammad, aged 22, and her cousin Abdul Karim Menala Mohammad, "a week after the kidnapping of Roken.

The mercenaries also confiscated the property of the Roken Menala Mohammad family, and a few days ago they asked the family to pay a sum of 250,000 Syrian pounds for each of the detainees, and the amount may increase, according to some sources.

Hundreds of families in the city of Afrin have severely suffered as a result of the crimes of the Turkish occupation against them.

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ANHA