March 28, 2018•Update: March 28, 2018
AFRIN, Syria, ANKARA
Free Syrian Army (FSA) continues its humanitarian aid activities in recently liberated Afrin town center in northwestern Syria.
While the Turkish military and FSA continues distributing humanitarian aid in Afrin town center, which was liberated from terrorists on March 18, Al-Sham Front -- a group fighting under the banner of Free Syrian Army -- has taken active participation in aid activities across the town center.
On April 2016, 80 members of the Free Syrian Army had been killed in Ayn Daqna village located in the north of Tal Rifaat city after they launched an operation to retrieve the village back from YPG/PKK terrorists.
The terror group roamed around the city by carrying the bodies of 60 FSA members in trailers and trucks and did not hand over them back to their families.
Abu Ahmed Nur, a commander of Al-Sham Front in Afrin, told Anadolu Agency that FSA doesn’t look for revenge.
“PKK terrorists killed our comrades and displayed their bodies here savagely [...] But, we are not like them. We respect the dead. We don’t look for any revenge,” he said.
On March 25, the corpses of 59 FSA fighters were discovered in a mass grave in Kucuk Meydan village during Operation Olive Branch in northwestern Syria. The bodies were handed over to their families.
“They [YPG/PKK] brought deaths, we on the other hand, bring lives,” Nur said.
Dubbing themselves as “peace ambassadors”, Abu Sulaiman, another FSA commander, said: “We are not those who love killing. We are not murderers.”
Reporting by Omer Koparan and Adham Kako; Writing by Cansu Dikme
