(cache)Elizabeth Tsurkov on Twitter: "* SNA confiscates homes & cars of civilians accusing them of ties to the SDF while knowing these are false claims. * A local took his valuable vehicle to SDF areas to prevent it from being stolen. SNA arrested his family to coerce him to return the vehicle, which they confiscated"

Elizabeth Tsurkov‏Verified account @Elizrael Nov 4

Pro-opposition Raqqa Post documents theft of cows, cars, batteries of cell towers, cash, and looting of an entire village by Turkish-backed factions in the inappropriately named "Safe Zone" these forces occupied in NE Syria http://bit.ly/2PJ3iJo Pillaging is a war crime

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Elizabeth Tsurkov‏Verified account @Elizrael Nov 4

Video from Ras al-Ayn/Serê Kaniyê showing shops looted by Turkish-backed fighters following the town's "liberation." Some stores are marked with graffiti for confiscation by fighters. Video by the Syrian Independent News Team.pic.twitter.com/0xAPHD93EV

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Elizabeth Tsurkov‏Verified account @Elizrael Nov 12

"Abu Abdo" from the Mu'tasim Division, a Turkish-backed faction, confiscated & marked this house in Ras al-Ayn. The house belongs to the family of Qais Ali, a leading anti-regime and anti-PYD activist. Via @rabinsherif1pic.twitter.com/HHEKjvvPma

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Elizabeth Tsurkov‏Verified account @Elizrael Nov 28

Report by Syrian human rights NGO about looting in Tel Abyad by the Turkish-backed Syrian factions after they captured the town https://stj-sy.org/en/raqqa-violations-committed-by-the-national-army-in-tell-abiad/ … via @STJ_SYRIA_ENG

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Elizabeth Tsurkov‏Verified account @Elizrael Dec 9

Ahrar al-Sharqiya looted grain & fertilizers stored in silos in Suluk, northern Raqqa, and sold it to the Assad regime through the sanctioned Qaterji firm, according to @EuphratesPost https://euphratespost.net/%d8%a3%d8%ad%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b4%d8%b1%d9%82%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%b9-%d9%82%d9%85%d8%ad-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ac%d8%b2%d9%8a%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%aa/ … an SNA source confirmed to me Ahrar's takeover of the silos

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Elizabeth Tsurkov‏Verified account @Elizrael Dec 12

The home of Kurdish journalist @serdar_melah in Ras al-Ayn was confiscated by a member of the Hamza Division, a Turkish-backed Syrian faction. Sources within the factions confirm to me large-scale seizure of homes and cars from locals, regardless of whether they have ties to YPG.pic.twitter.com/IQnK6DtSX7

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Elizabeth Tsurkov‏Verified account @Elizrael Dec 23

Elizabeth Tsurkov Retweeted Rojava Information Center

More looting in the Turkish-controlled zones captured in the invasion of NE Syriahttps://twitter.com/RojavaIC/status/1208792991776870401?s=19…

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Rojava Information Center @RojavaIC

Looting continues in Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad, with thousands of tons of grain this week being transported into Turkey via the Tel Abyad border crossing by Ahrar-al-Sharqiya. In Sere Kaniye, meanwhile, Turkish-backed fighters have seized beehives belonging to a local farmer. pic.twitter.com/GZtgam2hBH

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Elizabeth Tsurkov‏Verified account @Elizrael Dec 24

Below is a new testimony of a Jabha al-Shamiya commander on the extent of looting in Tel Abyad & surrounding countryside indicating an increasingly broad & more professionalized pillaging operation affecting larger number of civilians.

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Elizabeth Tsurkov‏Verified account @Elizrael Dec 24

* Over time, coordination between factions improved concerning movement of looted goods out of the area & proper division of spoils. Initial lack of coordination hindered movement of larger items such cars and trucks carrying stolen flour through checkpoints of different factions

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Elizabeth Tsurkov‏Verified account @Elizrael Dec 24

* Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) fighters stole cars of locals & took them apart to make smuggling of parts into Turkey easier. * SNA stole hundreds of tons of flour. Most of the profits go to commanders, but fighters get a cut too.

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Elizabeth Tsurkov‏Verified account @Elizrael

* SNA confiscates homes & cars of civilians accusing them of ties to the SDF while knowing these are false claims. * A local took his valuable vehicle to SDF areas to prevent it from being stolen. SNA arrested his family to coerce him to return the vehicle, which they confiscated

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1. Elizabeth Tsurkov‏Verified account @Elizrael 6 hours ago
  Photos of trucks moving wheat and barley from Tel Abyad stolen by Jabha al-Shamiya, a Turkish-backed factions. The activist group @Raqqa_SL also documented such looting in Suluk, with the involvement of the Jaysh al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sharqiya factions.pic.twitter.com/SC19uyvH41
  
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1. Ismailoğlu‏ @IsmailogluF Dec 24
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  Do you realise how circular that explanation is? 1) SNA confiscates cars from locals with SDF affiliation 2) Local hands car over to SDF (yet somehow local is not affiliated with SDF) 3) SNA confiscates (local’s) car from SDF, also known as (1)

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