The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Defection from SDF | Asayish’s female leader of Turkey’s Kurds flees to Turkey from rural al-Hasakeh

Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that a female leader in Asaish al-Derbasiya managed managed, a few days ago, to flee to Turkey from al-Derbasiya-Amuda area, north of Hasakeh.

According to Syrian Observatory sources, the female leader is of Kurdish descent from Turkey and she was working with SDF and was transferred to the city of Hasaka about two months ago.

On November 3, reliable sources informed SOHR that the SDF’s military security has arrested, a few days ago, two Kurds from Al-Hasakah and are affiliated to Syria Democratic Forces for “communicating with Turkish intelligence”.

One of the arrested is the driver of the “SDF commander-in-chief’s deputy”. According to the driver’s confessions, he is given 5,000 USD for each report he delvers to the Turkish intelligence, as such reports contain information about of the movements of the deputy of the commander-in-chief.

The other person is a security guard in SDF whose job is to welcome military figures, and he used to provide periodical reports to the Turkish intelligence with information about the military delegations and commanders in return for large sums of money.

On October 24, reliable SOHR sources confirmed that a Turkish-born Kurdish commander in Syria Democratic Forces fled on the previous day with his bodyguard to Turkey.

According to SOHR source, the commander and his bodyguard headed to the Turkish territory from the eastern countryside of Al-Darbasiyyah city where SDF members opened fire on them, attempting to prevent them from leaving Syria. However, the two defectors managed to reach Turkey.