Women in Afrin, Shahba protest against Turkish occupation, its mercenaries

A woman attempting to cross the Syrian-Turkish border faced a sexual assault attempt by Turkish mercenaries. Additionally, a young woman and a woman were driven to death in the town of Mobata in occupied Afrin due to repeated violations since Turkey and its mercenaries occupied Afrin in 2018, according to the Afrin-Syria Human Rights Organization.

On August 29, ANHA correspondent reported from a local source in the occupied city of Girê Spî that a 12-year-old orphan girl named "Mays" was sexually assaulted by a Turkish mercenary.

In protest against the Turkish occupation and its crimes against women and residents in the occupied areas, dozens of women in the town of Al-Ahdath in Afrin-Shahba, North and East Syria, held a demonstration. They carried signs reading "No to Violence Against Women," "Women Protect Themselves," and "No to Killing Women."

Simultaneously, the Sara Organization for Combating Violence Against Women issued a statement read in Kurdish by Council Member of the Sardam Camp, Klestan Mustafa, and in Arabic by Sara Organization member Tekushin Muhammad.

The organization called on human rights and humanitarian organizations, especially those protecting women's rights, to fulfill their responsibilities and work towards stopping the crimes of the Turkish occupation and holding it accountable.

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