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| Weekly toll of Turkey’s violations in Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad |
| 2022-03-04 |
TEL TAMR, Syria (North Press) – More violations against the indigenous people, plunder and shelling have been recorded since February in Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) and Tel Abyad areas, north and northeast Syria, which are controlled by Turkish-baked Syrian opposition factions. On February 25, Hevdestî (Synergy) Association said Sere Kaniye-based local council, which was established by Turkey, seized a house and shops that belong to a man identified as Jassem Sam’o, who displaced from the city due to the Turkish military action, and invested the owner’s properties without informing him or getting his approval. Hevdestî (Synergy) is a non-profit organization including journalists, human rights activists and researchers from Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad and aims to document the violations committed in the two cities by Syrian armed opposition factions. The local council transferred one of the shops to a center to sell bread, Hevdestî confirmed based on footages published by the local council itself and testimonies of IDPs of Sere Kaniye in Washokani Camp in Hasakah. The Turkish-backed Syrian opposition factions have seized 5,500 houses and 1,200 shops in Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad since they controlled the two areas in 2019, Hevdestî documented. In October 2019, the Turkish forces and the Syrian opposition factions launched ground and aerial offensive against Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad in NE Syria displacing approximately 300,000 civilians, human rights reports said. In the same context, local sources told North Press that militants of al-Qadesiya Brigade looted electricity wires from the grids that connect Ali Bajeliya town to Tel Abyad city on February 27 and caused a power outage in the region. The opposition factions conduct looting at midnight so that no one can watch them, the source added. On the same day, the Turkish forces targeted Tel Tamr countryside with scores of artillery and mortar shelling. The Turkish forces bombed the villages of Umm al-Khair, Dashisha, and Tawila in the west, and the villages of Tel Shnan in the east wounding a woman identified as Marwa Khleif, 30, from Umm al-Khair and damaging some civilians’ properties. The whole areas located on the contact lines in the northern countryside of Hasakah and in the northwestern countryside of Raqqa are bombed constantly by the Turkish forces and the opposition factions. Reporting by Dilsoz Youssef |
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