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Turkish border: Turks continue making life unpleasant for the locals in the hope that they’ll leave the land open for the refugees Turkey wants to resettle there
 Turkey Issues Unfair Sentences Including Death Against Kurds In Syria’s Afrin Aug 4, 2022 [NPASyria] A Turkish court in the Turkish-occupied city of Afrin in the north of Aleppo, northern Syria, issued sentences, including death to some Kurds on charges of dealing with the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES). The conditions or manner of trial of these people were unknown, and their families could not visit them or get a lawyer to defend them, Violations Documentation Center in Northern Syria (VDC-NSY) said. The AANES was first formed in 2014 in the Kurdish-majority regions of Afrin, Kobani and Jazira in northern Syria following the withdrawal of the government forces. Later, it was expanded to Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa, Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor after the SDF defeated ISIS militarily there. Turkey has been occupying Afrin and its countryside since March 2018, following a military operation called “Olive Branch” by the Turkish forces with the support of the Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, also known as Syrian National Army (SNA). Since then, the region has been witnessing trees’ cutting, arrests and killing incidents. These areas, however, continue to witness a state of security chaos, accompanied by explosions and continuous fighting, amid the factions’ inability to maintain security. Hussein Mustafa Hussein, 20, is from al-Mahmoudiya neighborhood of the city of Afrin. He was kidnapped on April 28, 2021. His family could not visit him or know where he was arrested until he was sentenced to death. Youssef Mustafa Hussein was kidnapped in May 1, 2021 and sentenced to three years in prison under the same previous circumstances. Mustafa bin Muhammad Hussein, 28, was kidnapped for the first time in 2019 and was released in March 2021 after he paid a ransom. However, he was kidnapped again after a week without knowing his fate until he was sentenced to 13 years in prison. Ezzaddin bin Youssef Mustafa, 17, was kidnapped on May 5, 2021 and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Zainab Muhammad Olashli, 27, Mustafa Hussein’s wife, was kidnapped on June 12, 2021 and sentenced to 12 years in prison. During June 2022, the SNA arrested 80 civilians of Afrin, according to the VDC-NSY. Since the beginning of the year, Afrin witnessed more than 433 arrests. This number is the documented one, whereas the actual number is more than this, especially that there are some detainees were not mentioned by their families, the organization noted. Turkish Border Guards Kill Farmer In Syria’s Kobani Aug 4, 2022 [NPASyria] The dear departed is Ibrahim Osman Mohyaddin, a resident of the village of Goran, 28 km east of Kobani. Khalil Qawas, a resident of the village of Kharabisan Foqani, told North Press, "Mohyaddin, who hails from the village of Kharabisan Foqani, was shot when he was watering his farmland in the village of Goran on the Qawas added that Mohyaddin was transferred to Kobani Hospital, but passed away before getting there, noting that he was shot in the chest. On September 27 of last year, the The Until mid-February, The Violations Documentation Center in Northern Syria (VDC-NSY) had documented the death of 525 Syrians, including 101 minors and 67 women, by Turkish Military Shells A Town Of Syria’s Aleppo, Wounds 7 People Aug 4, 2022 [NPASyria] Seven civilians were injured, including children, in a Turkish shelling of the town of Tel Rifaat in the northern countryside of Aleppo. The town of Tel Rifaat, 35 km north of Aleppo city, has been a shelter for Afrin displaced people since 2018 following the Turkish invasion of Afrin and its countryside which resulted in the displacement of about 300.000 of the original inhabitants. A medical source in the Tel Rifaat Hospital told North Press that seven people were wounded, including five children, one of whom is in a critical condition. “A shrapnel crossed the child’s skull, which puts his life at risk, so he will be transferred to Aleppo,” the source said. The source said the wounded children are Orivan Muhammad Abdo, 15, Dina Othman, 6, Hussein Jamal Qassem, 7, Afrin Abdel Rahman Haider, 13, and Mahmoud Gharib Mamo, 6. The others are Hussein Bayram Alko, 43, Ronahi Selo, 27, according to the medical source. An eyewitness said that a drone bombed several areas near a military post of the government forces (200 meters away), which was targeted by a drone earlier. The source noted that the shelling targeted several vital spots in Tel Rifaat, such as the town’s market and school. On August 1, Turkish shelling of Tel Rifaat killed an internally displaced woman from the city of Afrin, north of Aleppo. There are 3.692 displaced families that include 14.783 people from Afrin and 35 displaced families from Idlib live in Tel Rifaat, according to statistics carried out by Autonomous Administration of Afrin, which is currently operating in the northern countryside of Aleppo. There are also 630 families that include about 3.000 people of original residents in the town, according to the same source. Turkey has escalated its attacks on areas in north and northeast Syria, using artillery and drones following Tehran Summit, in which Turkey failed to obtain a green light by Iran and Russia to invade the region. Tehran Summit, on July 19, brought together presidents of each of Iran, Russia and Turkey with the Syrian issue and Turkish threats on the top of its agenda Turkish Artillery Targets Village North Of Syria’s Hasakah Aug 3, 2022 [NPASyria] Turkish forces and their affiliated opposition factions, known as the Syrian National Army (SNA), shelled on Wednesday evening the countryside of Tel Tamr, a town north of Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. A source in the Tel Tamr Military Council, affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), told North Press, “The Turkish forces targeted with artillery shells the village of Tawila, west of the town of Tel Tamr.” The bombardment resulted in material damage, according to the source. The town of Tel Tamr and its countryside have been under constant bombardment by Turkish forces and its affiliated SNA factions for more than two years. However, these attacks have witnessed a spike for the last three weeks; the most violent of which was on July 30, when 11 civilians were injured, including children. Tel Tamr, which has a population of about 25.000 and is 30 km away from the Syrian-Turkish border, is of strategic importance as it is a junction on the M4 Highway linking the Jazira region in northeast Syria to Aleppo Governorate in the northwest. Parts of the northern and western countryside of the town and the entire southern countryside are protected by the Syriac Military Council and the Assyrian Khabour Guards Forces, while the Turkish-backed SNA control the northern countryside up to the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) on the northern border of Syria. Posted by: trailing wife 2022-08-07 |
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