Turkey commits a crime against humanity in Afrin

Turkey, which has long been the first and foremost supporter of Islamist opposition groups, especially Al Nusra Front and ISIS, has spared no effort to suppress the Kurds.

In the Turkish war against Kurds, children continue to be the hardest hit by unprecedented destruction, displacement and death. They have lost lives, homes and childhoods.

TURKISH ARMY COMMITS A HORRIFIC MASSACRE AGAINST KURDS

The successive Turkish governments, with all its military forces and armed with the most modern weapons, have tried, for decades, to eliminate the Kurdish people, but to no avail. The war that has just started against the Kurds, which will soon expand under various pretexts, proves this point.

Afrin, which hosts thousands of refugees and IDPs who fled the terror of Al Nusra Front and ISIS, is now under heavy attack by the Turkish army. The Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan began his military operation, called the “Olive Branch” against the Kurds in Syria.

Turkey, which has long been the first and foremost supporter of Islamist opposition groups, especially Al Nusra Front and ISIS, has spared no effort to suppress the Kurds.

Kobani is still in memory as Turkey facilitated the entry of ISIS to Kobani for three years and gave it full support to carry out the most terrible massacres against innocent civilians. Following its failure in Kobani, Turkey has started to spread its hatred in Afrin in an attempt to get rid of the Kurds.

The resistance in Afrin is the resistance of the era, against the Turkish army, which acts on the orders . of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader Erdogan, the supporter of terrorism in  Syria. Erdogan took advantage of the situation in Idlib and used it as a bargaining chip with the Syrian regime and Russia. Now, Turkey uses F-16 to bomb Afrin.

Turkey’s aircrafts have killed the refugee children and IDPs who moved to Afrin seeking security and safety. Turkey also shelled the area of Jindires and committed a massacre against innocent civilians. Turkey is fighting the children and women of Afrin. The Turkish army has stepped up its brutality towards the peaceful people in Afrin, using all kinds of weapons in indiscriminate bombardment on our villages and cities. During the morning hours of 23/01/2018 many civilians were killed in Jindires, as a result of Turkish brutal attack on the city. This attack was not different from previous attacks on the city by Al Nusra Front and ISIS in the past.

While the Turkish state and its media claim that they do not target innocent civilians during their operation in Afrin, numerous media reports have shown photographic and video footages of the Turkish bombings and the killings of dozens of civilians, including a number of children.

The outcome of the Turkish aggression on Afrin until 27/01/2018 can be summarised:

86 civilians have been killed.

198 people have been wounded.

The wounded people during the first 4 days:

  1. Ismail Al Hussain (9 years).
  2. Fadi Al Hussain (10 years).
  3. Abdelsatar Janko (28 years).
  4. Mohamed Abdo Janko (27 years).
  5. Ismail Mohamed Ibrahim (12 years).
  6. Fadi Mohamed Abdo (10 years).
  7. Hamid Batal (30 years).
  8. Khaled Abdelqadir (46 years).
  9. Hassan Ibrahim (2 years).
  10. Hamida Ibrahim (3 years).
  11. Faiza Bader Al Hassan (24 years).
  12. Dariana Mohamed Saido.
  13. Hiba Akram (13 years).
  14. There is also an unknown civilian aged 30.

Only in two villages, Miriamin in the Shera area, Diwa in the Jindires area the total number of civilian casualties has risen to 9 martyrs, while the number of the wounded has risen to 26.

The military operation launched by the Turkish fascist regime against the civilian people in Afrin region continues for the tenth day in a row.

Names of the civilians killed:

Full Name

Age

Place of Martyrdom

Date of Martyrdom

Yahya Ahmed Hamada

11

Trenda – IDP from Aleppo

20/01/2018

Rahaf Al Hussain

33

Jilbera – Al Madjina massacre

21/01/2018

Wael Al Hussain

1

Jilbera – Al Madjina massacre

21/01/2018

Hadil Al Hussain

10

Jilbera – Al Madjina massacre

21/01/2018

Ghaliya Al Hussain

8

Jilbera – Al Madjina massacre

21/01/2018

Salama Al Hussain

6

Jilbera – Al Madjina massacre

21/01/2018

Mousab Al Hussain

6

Jilbera – Al Madjina massacre

21/01/2018

Ahmed Al Hussian

17

Jilbera – Al Madjina massacre

21/01/2018

Unknown

30

Jilbera – Al Madjina massacre

21/01/2018

Mohamed Khalil Bakir

10

Altanio - Rajo

22/01/2018

Unknown (disabled)

35

Adamo - Adamo

22/01/2018

Sawsan Jamil

35

Tel Salawr

22/01/2018

Almaza Sheikh Horo

50

Jindiris

23/01/2018

Unknown child

14

Jindiris

23/01/2018

Unknown

19

Jindiris

23/01/2018

Unknown woman

55

Jindiris

23/01/2018

Kanjo Kanjo

60

Majblet Trenda

20/01/2018

 

Names of the wounded civilians:

Full Name and Age

Place

Diagnosis

Date

Ahmed Sabri Kandi - 45

Hamam

Spinal injury.

23/01/2018

Asia Sheikh Murad - 70

Sheia

Head injury.

23/01/2018

Rasheed Daowd Isso  71

Belbel

Face, back and abdomen injuries.

23/01/2018

Zayneb Hamkalino – 40

Ma’amel Aoshagi

Accident. Hit by a shell.

23/01/2018

Hussain Hassan Hamkalino  - 16

Ma’amel Aoshagi

Accident. Hit by a shell.

23/01/2018

Farida Koleen - 56

Sheia

Shell fragment in the abdomen.

23/01/2018

Hassan Hussain Mohamed - 59

Jindiris

Face injury.

23/01/2018

Mohamed Rasheed Hassan - 40

Jindiris

Neck and abdomen injury.

23/01/2018

Moustafa Abou Hamo - 12

Jindiris

Lower limb injury.

23/01/2018

Basema Mohamed Ba’ajo - 32

Jindiris

Lower limb injury.

23/01/2018

Aya Nabo - 7

Jindiris

Abdominal injury.

23/01/2018

Jankiz Ahmed Khalil - 20

Maydan Akbes

Abdominal injury.

23/01/2018

Shamsa Mousa - 75

Rajo

Multiple fractions.

23/01/2018

Waleed Kons - 18

Rajo

Arrived dead.

23/01/2018

Hanifa Kons - 35

Rajo

Left foot injury.

23/01/2018

Mustafa Mohamed Khalof - 12

Jandiris

Lower limb injury.

23/01/2018

Ibrahim Mohamed Al Hussain - 35

Mariamin

Limbs injury.

21/01/2018

Bader Al Hussain – 24

Mariamin

Spinal injury.

21/01/2018

Hamida Ibrahim Al Hussain - 3

Mariamin

Head injury.

21/01/2018

Hassan Ibrahim Al Hassan - 2

Mariamin

Head injury.

21/01/2018

Khaled Mohamed Ali Abdelqadir - 46

Mariamin

Back of head injury.

21/01/2018

Hamid Battal - 30

Faqeero

Head and face injuries.

21/01/2018

Unknown

Matahan Al Faisal

Facial fracture, right frontal fracture and right leg fracture.

21/01/2018

Fadi Mohamed Aid - 10

Mariamin

Head and thigh injury.

21/01/2018

Ismaeel Mohamed Ibrahim - 12

Mariamin

Pelvis injury.

21/01/2018

Jumaa Mohamed Al Hussain - 17

Mariamin

 

21/01/2018

Kefah Al Moussa Al A’amer - 20

Mariamin

Broken ribs.

21/01/2018

Unknown - 2

Ain Al Hajer

Eye injury and facial burn

21/01/2018

Heba Akram Othman – 13

Aadamo

Arm injury

21/01/2018

Darian Mohamed Saydo - 19

Aadamo

Chest and ankle injury

21/01/2018

Mohamed Abdo Kanjo - 27

Kafar Hamra

Bruises.

21/01/2018

Abdelqadir Kanjo - 28

Kafar Hamra

Bruises.

21/01/2018

Fahed Ahmed Al Ahmad - 39

Trenda Idlib

Leg injury

20/01/2018

Kanjo Kanjo Al Ali - 60

 

Dead- head injury

20/01/2018

Yahya Ahmed Hamada - 9

Trenda (Aleppo)

Dead – open abdomen.

20/01/2018

Khaled Hamada - 11

Trenda (Aleppo)

Open abdomen.

20/01/2018

Hamada Mohamed Ali - 32

Bashmara

Back and shoulder injuries.

20/01/2018

A’amar Al Barj - 19

 

Spinal injury

20/01/2018

Za’aeem Osso – 19

 

Back of ear injury

20/01/2018

Ibrahim Khalil - 45

 

Leg injury

20/01/2018

 

ARMENIANS AND ARABS ARE ALSO TARGETED

An Armenian family that fled the massacres of exterminating the Armenians by the Turks 100 years ago and found security and stability in Afrin canton was attacked by the Turkish military that followed them even in Afrin to be the victims of the bombing of the Turkish warplanes in the centre of Rajo district.

On January 24 at night, the Turkish occupation’s warplanes bombed Rajo area, and killed a young man, named Rosher Konis, and injured his mother Shamsa Konis who is 57, while his sister Hanifa Konis, 25, her leg was amputated. They are an Armenian family.

The family’s relative, Hartyon Kivork said, “Their ancestors fled the oppression of the Turkish authorities nearly 100 years ago as a result of the massacres committed by the Turks against the Armenians so that they headed towards Afrin to live in peace among their Kurdish brothers and all other peoples and sects living in the area.”

Hartyon Kivork added, “But the Turkish occupation army has resumed its massacres which do not differentiate between people and stones to commit new massacres against all peoples in Afrin to leave our Armenian family as a victim of the Turkish crimes again while we used to live in harmony in our homes to be attacked again by the Turkish state.”

The Turkish army also committed a horrific massacre in Haj Khalil village after targeting the village on 28/01/2018. Dozens of civilians have been killed and many others have been wounded. Similarly, a Turkish warplane targeted Balbala area in the morning (28/01/2018), killing and injuring dozens of innocent civilians.

TURKISH CRIMES AGAINST CULTURAL HERITAGE

Turkey not satisfied with killing civilians on a day basis, they have now started erasing what is left of the history of ancient populations in Rojava. Turkey is committing crimes against cultural heritage- Ain Dara Hittite temple complex.

Even mosques have been bombed by the Turkish army.

After the First World War between 1919 and 1920, the Turkish authorities committed genocide and massacres against the Armenian people, and forcibly deported them from their lands.

Today they are committing the same against the Kurds.

Images from the war crimes of the Turkish state in Afrin can be found at:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pW8L_UyXt_f8jw3iNHKm3lWAGAPxUVdV?usp=sharing

Videos:

https://youtu.be/1i8RhX2Y5fs  - Civilian Victims in Afrin

https://youtu.be/sxi0jhOKmKY  - Refugees in Afrin

https://youtu.be/_9izLApDhGI  - Heritage destroyed in Afrin