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Turkey hands over 13 Syrian asylum-seekers to HTS in Idlib, arrests 10 and drones Tel Tamar village in Hasakah
2023-08-18
[NPASyria] Ottoman Turkish authorities handed over on Thursday 13 Syrian asylum-seekers to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS, formerly al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front) through Bab al-Hawa border crossing in the north of Idlib, northwest Syria. They were arrested while attempting to cross the border to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
An exclusive source told North Press that 13 Syrian asylum-seekers, including four women, were arrested three weeks earlier when they tried to cross the border to Turkey near the village of Kherbet al-Joz in the northwest of Idlib.

The source added that the Ottoman Turkish border guards handed over the detainees to the security forces of the border crossing. They took their iris scans and finger prints to prevent them from entering Turkey.

According to the source, the hand-over is the sixth of its kind in August, where the detainees are investigated with in Ottoman Turkish territories.

A source within the administration of the crossing told North Press that the number of Syrians handed over in August by the Ottoman Turkish authorities through Bab al-Hawa reached 98.

During the first half of 2023, the number of affected Syrian asylum seekers has reached 452 individuals, including 20 children and 26 women. Tragically, 25 people were killed and 121 others were maimed during direct targeting by live bullets while attempting to cross the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border. In addition, the Ottoman Turkish border guards have assaulted and beaten 306 individuals and have used excessive force to prevent them from crossing the border.

Turkish border guards arrest 10 Syrians in Hasakah

[NPASyria] Ottoman Turkish border guards arrested on Wednesday 10 people while trying to cross the border to the Ottoman Turkish territories from Hasakah Governorate in northeastern Syria.

The Ottoman Turkish border guard arrested ten asylum seekers, including a Paleostinian, after injuring three of them who were transferred to the Observation Center in the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain), north of Hasakah, awaiting their transfer to the detention center in the Ottoman Turkish city of Urfa, southern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, after verifying their security situation, an exclusive source told North Press.

The source said the people tried to cross the border from al-Aziziyah village, west of Sere Kaniye, intending to cross to the Ottoman Turkish territories by smugglers. However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
the border guards shot them.

Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad, north of Raqqa, has been under the occupation of the Ottoman Turkish forces and has been controlled by the SNA factions since 2019 following the so-called "Peace Spring" military operation that aimed to push away the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) under the pretext of protecting the Ottoman Turkish national security.

The number of people injured in Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad in August as a result of targeting them by the border guards while trying to cross the border reached 15, including women, according to the source.

Turkish drone targets village in Syria’s Tel Tamr

[NPASyria] On Thursday, a Ottoman Turkish drone targeted a village in the town of Tel Tamr, north of Hasakah Governorate, northeast Syria.

A military source informed North Press that "a Ottoman Turkish drone targeted the village of al-Tawila in the western countryside of Tel Tamr."

The source further mentioned that there were no reported human casualties as a result of the targeting. However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
the incident caused damage to the material possessions and homes of residents in the village.

Tel Tamr, which has a population of about 25,000 and is 30 km away from the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border, is of strategic importance as it is a junction on the M4 Highway linking Hasakah to Aleppo governorate in the northwest.

The town has been under constant attacks by Ottoman Turkish forces and the Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, aka Syrian National Army (SNA), for more than two years.

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 SNA controls the northern countryside up to the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) on the northern border of Syria.
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