40 people kidnapped in occupied Afrin during June

The mercenary groups affiliated with the Turkish occupation continue to carry out more home raids and civilian kidnappings. The rates of violence, crime, arrests, and kidnappings have increased in occupied Afrin and in all areas occupied by Turkey in Syria. 

The Violations Documentation Center announced in its report that mercenary groups in occupied Afrin kidnapped 40 people, including a minor, during the past month of June.

June 1, 2024:

National Army mercenaries (Military Police) kidnapped Khalil Ali (58 years old) from Ali Kara village in Balbala town, Afrin countryside, and took him to an unknown destination.

National Army mercenaries (Civil Police) kidnapped elderly citizen Janan Mohammad Haskeh (75 years old) in Jindires city and took him to an unknown destination. Mohammad Horo (58 years old) was also kidnapped.

June 2, 2024:

National Army mercenaries (Military Police) kidnapped Ali Saleh Saleh (45 years old) from Alataniya village in Rajo city and took him to an unknown destination.

National Army mercenaries (9th Division) kidnapped Kurdish citizen Ismat Rifat Mustafa (45 years old) from Musako village in Rajo city as he returned to his city with his three children and wife.

June 3, 2024:

National Army mercenaries in Jindires kidnapped three citizens from Kora village: Jan Haji Rashid, Suleiman Hikmet, and Mohammad Rashid Haj Omar, and took them to an unknown destination. These three had previously been kidnapped by mercenaries from the "Military Police" and were released upon paying a ransom.

National Army mercenaries (Military Police) kidnapped Arif Mohammad Kadlo (52 years old) and Mohammad Farouk Kadlo (58 years old) from their home in Jalma village in Jindires and took them to an unknown destination.

June 4, 2024:

National Army mercenaries (Jabha Al-Shamiya) kidnapped Tamam Safour (48 years old) at the Bab Al-Salama border crossing with Turkey in Azaz city as he was being deported from Turkey, demanding a $1,500 ransom from his family for his release.

June 5, 2024:

National Army mercenaries (Sham Legion) raided the seven Midaniyat villages in Rajo town, Afrin countryside, and carried out a wide-scale kidnapping campaign. Known kidnapped individuals include: Aref Rashid bin Hassan (70 years old), Omar Rashid bin Mohammad (60 years old), Shaban Hamo bin Hussein (60 years old), Faek Ismail Ismail (56 years old), Ismail Bilal Suleiman (35 years old), Mohammad Salah Sin Ali (45 years old), Sheikh Mohammad Mohammad (70 years old), Izzat Bilal Ismail (56 years old), Khalil Sheikho Rashid (47 years old), and Mohammad Naasan Mustafa (40 years old).

National Army mercenaries (Military Police in Afrin) kidnapped Mohammad Maqdad Yousuf (35 years old) from Basouta village in Shirawa town and took him to an unknown destination.

June 6, 2024:

National Army mercenaries raided Baflour village in Jindires and carried out a random kidnapping campaign. Known kidnapped individuals include: Dalil Hassan Haji (34 years old) and Jamal Hayyan (35 years old).

National Army mercenaries (Military Police) kidnapped Salah Ali Abdo from his home in Ashrafiyeh neighborhood, Afrin, originally from Ramadiya village in Jindires.

June 7, 2024:

National Army mercenaries (Military Police) kidnapped Taher Mohammad Shukri (54 years old) from Dar Kir village in Mobata while he was traveling to Afrin city near the gas station in Mahmoudiyah neighborhood, and took him to an unknown destination.

June 10, 2024:

National Army mercenaries (Ahrar al-Sharqiya) kidnapped elderly citizen Hussein Mousa Shekhouk (75 years old) from Afrin city, assaulted him, and took him to an unknown destination.

June 11, 2024:

National Army mercenaries (Military Police) kidnapped Ahmad Farid Rasho, born in 1985, from Jeqla village in Sheikh al-Hadid, from a home near Al-Asdiqa Nursery in Afrin city, two weeks after he returned to the city.

June 13, 2024:

National Army mercenaries kidnapped Youssef Hanif (24 years old) from Ramadaneh village in Jindires, Afrin countryside, and took him to an unknown destination.

National Army mercenaries (Military Police) kidnapped Adnan Nami Osman (26 years old), known as Armanj, from Ain al-Hajar al-Kabir village in Jarabulus city.

June 14, 2024:

National Army mercenaries kidnapped brothers Mohammad Zemji Murad (35 years old) and Faik Zemji Murad (33 years old) from Kfar Safra town in Jindires city while they were in Jarabulus, and took them to an unknown destination.

June 16, 2024:

National Army mercenaries kidnapped Imad Mustafa Khalil from Hawlila village in Rajo city from a relative's house near Nawrouz roundabout in Afrin city and took him to an unknown destination.

June 18, 2024:

National Army mercenaries (Military Police) kidnapped Rizan Mohammad Mohammad (44 years old) from his home in the Al-Mahmoudiyah neighborhood of Afrin city.

Rizan Mohammad, originally from Shiktako village in Shyah city, Afrin, was taken to an unknown destination.

June 22, 2024:

National Army mercenaries kidnapped Nihrvan Mustafa Ali (37 years old) from Mobata town from his home in Mahmoudiyah neighborhood in Afrin city.

June 25, 2024:

National Army mercenaries kidnapped Rashid Samir Ali (24 years old) from Kora village in Jindires city while he was leaving his shoe shop in Jindires at night, riding his motorcycle to his village. His whereabouts remain unknown, and his family was asked to pay a $25,000 ransom for his release.

June 26, 2024:

National Army mercenaries (Civil Police) kidnapped Yahya Taha Barakat (37 years old) and the minor Adham Darwish Aloush (15 years old) in Jindires city, taking them to an unknown destination with their fate still unknown.

June 27, 2024:

National Army mercenaries kidnapped Ali Nour Al-Din and Rashid Koulin, taking them to an unknown destination with their fate still unknown. 

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ANHA