Turkey maintaining atrocities against residents in northern Syria
Thursday 06/August/2020 - 03:53 PM
Ali Ragab
Turkish occupation forces keep committing atrocities against the residents of the northern Syrian city of Afrin, including by kidnapping some of the residents and torturing them.
The atrocities have targeted all residents of the city, regardless of their gender or age.
Turkish troops also extort money from the residents of the city and force civilians to pay ransom before the release of those they kidnap.
According to a report by the Center for Documenting Violations in Northern Syria, violence and inter-factional fighting increased in the areas controlled by Turkey in northern Syria in July.
The occupation by Turkey of areas and cities east of the Euphrates has opened the door for a human tragedy in these cities and caused the displacement of over 375,000 people, the center said.
Compounding this were the human rights violations committed by Turkish occupation troops in the same areas, including the confiscation of the properties of their residents and the indiscriminate shelling of the same cities, including with internationally-banned weapons.
The center added that field executions have become rampant in the cities occupied by the Turks.
Medical teams are also targeted indiscriminately which caused the deterioration of conditions in them, the center said.
It said the Turkish troops and the militias allied to them had killed 2,130 people in these cities so far.
It added that attacks by the troops and these militias left 7,145 injured so far.
The center revealed that the number of Syrian prisoners in Turkish jails in the same cities reached 6,660 since the beginning of the Turkish incursion into northern Syria.
About 4,000 of these prisoners have already been released, the center said.
Nonetheless, the fate of the remaining number of the prisoners is not known yet, it added.
