Turkish occupation and its mercenaries kidnapped 10 citizens and cut down 70 olive trees in occupied Afrin

 With the aim of consolidating its colonial plans, aimed at consolidating demographic change and stripping it off the Syrian lands, since the occupation of Afrin on March 18 2018, the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries have been practicing a dirty policy against the people of Afrin by kidnapping and killing them, stealing their property, uprooting their trees, requesting ransoms and destroying everything.

 In less than two weeks, according to sources from the occupied canton of Afrin, the Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries kidnapped 10 citizens, including 4 elderly people, and cut down 70 perennial olive trees.

 According to a source from the center of the occupied canton of Afrin, on May 11, a patrol of the mercenaries of the "military police" of the Turkish occupation raided the Ashrafieh neighborhood in the canton's center, and kidnapped the 30-year-old Muhammad Ezzat.

 The source added that Muhammad Ezzat was kidnapped in front of his house, located in the vicinity of Ashrafieh Park, on flimsy charges, knowing that the young man is the only child of his parents.

 On May 15, according to a source from Mobata district, the "Syrian Front" mercenaries of the Turkish occupation kidnapped the 70-year-old Manan Mustafa Agha, in the middle of Mobata district, on false accusations as well.

 On the same day, the "Military Police" mercenaries kidnapped two citizens of the village of Darkaria in Mobata district, Sabri Mustafa Shasho, 60 years old, and Abdo Bakr Ali, 55 years old, whose fate is still unknown.

 On May 16, according to a source from Mobata district, a joint patrol of the "civil police" and "Suqur Al-Shamal" mercenaries of the Turkish occupation kidnapped the citizen Farid Aref Kusa.

 The source added that the kidnapping took place after a raid on his house in the village of Kamrouk, which belongs to the district.

 On May 17, according to a source from Shirawa, the mercenaries of the Turkish occupation kidnapped 36-year-old Hussein Aboud Qijah from the people of Kurzel in Shirawa district, on false accusations.

 On May 18, according to another source, the mercenaries of "Ahrar al-Sharqiya" affiliated with the Turkish occupation, kidnapped two citizens of the village of Siuya in the Mobata district, namely Rashid Khalil Manan and Aref Ali Ashraf.

 The source added that the mercenaries raided their homes in the village and kidnapped them, under false pretexts.

 According to another source from Shirawa district, the mercenaries of the Turkish occupation kidnapped 61-year-old Mustafa Jammu Kalu from the village of Kurzela in Shirawa district.

 On the same day, according to a source from Raju, the mercenaries of the "Al-Majd Corps" of the Turkish occupation kidnapped the elderly Ramzi Bakr, 70, from the village of Maidana in Rajo district, without knowing the charge against him.

 70 trees were cut down for logging

 According to a source, the leader of the Turkish occupation mercenaries, who comes from the town of Hayyan in the countryside of Aleppo, (Mohammed Siraj Ali), uprooted 70 perennial olive trees in order to wood them and sell them.

 The source added that the felled trees belonged to the citizen Ahmed Maho, nicknamed "Makkour", and he is a resident of Bilbla district of the occupied canton of Afrin.

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 ANHA