Local sources: PYD abducting elderly people in Aleppo
by Anadolu Agency
ALEPPOSep 22, 2016 - 12:00 am GMT+3
by Anadolu Agency
Sep 22, 2016 12:00 am
The Democratic Union Party (PYD), the Syrian wing of the PKK terrorist group, has abducted 10 elderly people near the city of Afrin in Syria's northwestern Aleppo province, according to local sources.
The sources, who spoke to Anadolu Agency anonymously due to fear for their safety, said the abductees had been taken to unknown locations after their sons had fled their homes to avoid forced recruitment by the terrorist group.
According to the same sources, the abductees - whose ages reportedly range between 60 and 75 - all hail from the villages of Aster and Juwayq on Afrin's outskirts.
The PYD, local sources assert, is blackmailing young local men to fight for its cause by abducting their elderly relatives.
The group has reportedly established patrols on the road linking Afrin to the Raju district with a view to finding men of military age to press into military service.
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