Kidnapping of a minor child from Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood

Yekiti Media

Last Sunday, February 16, 2025, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)-affiliated Juanen Shorshaker/Revolutionary Youth organization kidnapped a child in Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in order to recruit him into the ranks of the PKK.

According to a local source, on February 16, 14-year-old Ahmad Nouri Abo was kidnapped in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood and taken to the PKK’s child recruitment and militarization camps, which are spread in several areas of Syrian Kurdistan, according to a local source.

The family of the minor Ahmad, despite their efforts to check with PYD and SDF centers, have still not been able to obtain any information about the fate of their son.

In 2019, SDF commander Mazloum Abdi signed a commitment plan with the UN Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, to end and prevent the recruitment and use of children under the age of 18 in military operations.

According to observers, the Revolutionary Youth organization aims to brainwash children with the ideologies of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in order to recruit them into the PKK’s military ranks.