Rojava-based Hawar News Agency (ANHA) reported that 8 youths from Rojava were captured by Turkish soldiers as they tried the cross the border from Girê Spî countryside into Bakurê (Northern) Kurdistan Wednesday morning. The soldiers tortured and heavily wounded 6 of these youths and murdered 2 of them.

Ela İbrahim, one of the tortured youths who could escape death, told the following details about the incident: “Me and my cousins Hayil Xelîl and Ehmed Ayid Eyaş left home and set out to work in Turkey. 5 other young men joined us and we headed to the Iwêşiyê village, 30 km east of Silûk, to cross the border. We reached the village at 12:00 at night and we headed towards the border at 03:00 midnight. We then crossed the border to see that we were surrounded by Turkish soldiers. They brutally battered us for two hours and shot our video as we were tortured. They shot two of the youths to death.”

İbrahim told the followings as to what Turkish soldiers did after killing 2 young men: “They brought us near the border and told us to run. Once we crossed into the Rojava side of the border, they opened fire on us from behind. Me and Nayif Hemîd got injured and the others near us who survived the shooting without injuries rushed us to the YPG point in the village of Nis Tel. The YPG fighters there took us to the Wetenî Hospital in Girê Spî but the bodies of the 2 slain youths remained at the border.”

Names of the Rojavan youths who survived the savagery of the Turkish soldiers are: Nayif Hemîd, Ela Ibrahîm, Hayil Xelîl, Ebû Eyaş, Talib Xelef and Ehmed Ayid Eyaş.