Al Nusra organizing young people in Diyarbakır

ANF – Diyarbakır/Amed – 21.8.2013 – Following the recent attacks and massacres targeting Kurds in Rojava, militants of the al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front are now attempting to lay hands on Kurdish youths in the main Kurdish city of Diyarbakır.

The police are conniving at the activities of the organization which is trying to bring new militants in by deceiving the high school and university students, saying that “We are God’s soldiers and the Kurds in Syria are disbelievers”.

Kartal family in Diyarbakır received an interesting answer from the police when they made a complaint about the al Nusra militants’ efforts to organize children in the city. Police told the family that they were aware of the organization’s activities and that they could intervene them only in the event that it is added to the list of “terrorist organizations”.

Mehmet Kartal, who is trying to save his brother from the hands of the organization, told that his family had applied to police after they found out that their son was in contact with militants of al-Qaeda affiliated groups.

Kartal, criticizing the attitude of the police, said that; “Our people know how dangerous the al-Qaeda organization is, and that it is still massacring people in Iraq and other countries and carrying out suicide attacks. Their religious perspective is entirely based on war and they are openly terrorizing the religion. Besides, we know how cruel they have been in their attacks against Kurdish people in Rojava in recent months. They declare Kurds disbelievers and attack them. It was again this murderer organization which bombed the martyrs’ monument in Halabja two years ago. As a Muslim citizen having done researches in the sociology of religion, I feel ashamed of al-Qaeda militants. We must expel these people  from Kurdish cities in response to their efforts to dominate the Middle East and its perspective which targets the honor of Kurds. We mustn’t allow them to deceive our youths and to send them to their deaths”. Kartal called on all Kurdish families to protect their children from these murderer organizations.