The Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorist organization, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), has begun to carry out arbitrary mass arrests targeting young men to force them to take up arms, from the PKK-occupied city of Manbij, in rural Aleppo, from where they’re sent to terror camps that have been set up in the city of Ayn al-Arab (Kobani).
According to local sources, PKK/PYD sent 200 terrorists from the city of Ayn al-Arab (Kobani), in order to arrest young men and send them to the PKK-occupied city of Manbij.
Every morning, PKK/PYD terrorists set up dozens of checkpoints on the main roads of Manbij, in addition to exit/entry points, where they have begun to arbitrarily arrest young men between the ages of 18 and 31.
PKK/PYD terrorists have set up several checkpoints across the city of Manbij, including ones that were set up in the neighborhood of Jarablus Road and the Matahin intersection, and at the eastern and northern entrances of the central al-Jazireh neighborhood. Mobile checkpoints were also set up in the nearby Fara and al-Qersan towns.
The arrestees are then moved to terror camps set up in the PKK-occupied Ayn al-Arab town in rural Aleppo.
PKK/PYD actions were met with widespread reaction from Manbij traders who, in response to a call from the al-Bab military council, have taken part in a general strike yesterday.
Residents of Manbij and nearby towns, whose relatives have been arrested by PKK/PYD terrorists, organized demonstrations to protest the arrests.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States. The PKK has been conducting armed violence in the southeastern part of Turkey since 1984. More than 40,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the three-decade long conflict.
