Three young women kidnapped in Turkish-occupied Afrin

According to reports from the ground, 24-year-old Rohat Îbo and her two fellows from the village of Kurzele, in Sherawa district, were apprehended by the invaders while passing through the Qews checkpoint located on the Afrin-Azaz highway.

The three women were reportedly working for the Qatari Red Crescent and were on their way back from work from the village in Chumke. The aftermath of the three women is unknown.

The family of Rohat Ibo stated that they wanted to see their daughter but saw their demand rejected.

The Qews checkpoint has turned into one of the most notorious checkpoints in the Afrin region, where people are abducted with various excuses.

The Turkish state built a regime of terror in the regions it occupied in North-East Syria, especially in Afrin which has been under Turkish invasion since March 2018. In Afrin, which was turned into a scene of systematic war crimes, kidnapping, execution, torture, looting and forced displacement became daily routines.

Between the commencement of the Afrin invasion operation on January 20, 2018 and the conclusion of 2020, the invaders killed at least 637 civilians and kidnapped 7,800. 

According to the Afrin non-governmental organizations’ balance sheet of the crimes committed by the Turkish state and its mercenaries against women in Afrin, 84 women have been killed in Afrin since 18 March 2018. Six of these women ended their lives because they could not cope with what they had gone through. Over a thousand women were abducted by mercenaries on different dates. The fate of many is still unknown. Sexual abuse crimes against 71 women were committed.