Including forcibly deported people | Border Guards and Turkish services arrest six civilians and release others for ransom in Afrin

Aleppo province: Border Guards near Shangliyah village, of Bulbul district, arrested three civilians aged 50, 45 and 32, after their return to their hometown in Raju district, coming from Aleppo city, to cross the Syrian-Turkish border via smuggling routes, in search of a safe haven, and they were taken to an unknown destination, with the aim of blackmailing their families to obtain ransoms in exchange for their release, and their fate remains unknown until now.
Moreover, two civilians aged 34 and 29 from Bulbul district were subjected to an arrest operation by the Turkish-linked services, after they were forcibly deported from inside Turkish territory late July, as they were arrested while reviewing the transportation department in the region, and were taken to an unknown destination without knowing their fate.
In Jinderes district, the military police arrested a 52-year-old civilian, a week after his return to his hometown from Aleppo, on charges of working in an automatic bakery of the former “Autonomous Administration”, and he was taken to an unknown destination, without knowing his fate.
While the Turkish security services released a civilian from Ain Al-Hajar village, of Maabatli district, after being detained for more than two weeks in the prison of Bulbul district in Afrin countryside, in exchange for a large ransom.
A 41-year-old man from Juwayq village in Afrin countryside, who was forcibly deported from within Turkish territory, was also released in exchange for a ransom of 5,000 USD, after he was arrested by the military police in a raid on his house in Al-Mahmoudiyah neighbourhood, on charges of working at Al-Ghazawiyah crossing during the rule of the former “Autonomous Administration”.