Mother desperate to be reunited with her daughter after PKK/YPG abducts child in northern Syria

By Esref Musa

TEL ABYAD, Syria (AA) - Huda Remmo, a mother whose child was abducted by the PKK/YPG, is desperate to be reunited with her 14-year-old daughter.

Aya Muhammed Hamam was born in December 2010. She was abducted by the PKK/YPG, a terror group supported by the US, on March 2, while on her way to school in the Manbij District of Aleppo.

"I want to know about my daughter," said Remmo, recounting the details of the abduction to Anadolu.

Under The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and other international laws, the use of children for terror purposes is classified as "crimes against humanity."

The PKK/YPG terror group has been known to abduct children in the areas it occupies in Syria and forcibly recruit them, shattering the dreams of parents and children.

Remmo described Aya as an eighth-grade student and expressed her anguish at not having news about her daughter since she was abducted.

When she asked her daughter's classmates, Remmo said she was told that her Aya was in the hands of PKK's youth wing, known as the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement.

The mother explained that she had reached out to organizations affiliated with the terror group in the district but received no response. “They all denied it. They said, 'Your daughter is not here.' I want to get news of my daughter,” said Remmo.

Remmo said Aya is the youngest at home. “We cannot do without her, we cannot live without her. My husband and I are in a very bad situation," she said.

"Who took her? Where did they take her? I want to know. I just want news from her. They claim to support women's rights. They have hurt us," she added.

In its more than 35-year terror campaign against Türkiye, the PKK -- listed as a terrorist organization by Türkiye, the US and the EU -- has been responsible for the deaths of more than 40,000 people, including women, children and infants.

*Writing by Seda Sevencan in Istanbul