In the operations carried out within the scope of the "Humanitarian and Security Operation" launched by the Northern and Eastern Syrian Internal Security Forces in the Hol Camp on August 25, many tunnels, training places, prisons, torture, murder tools and ammunition belonging to ISIS were found. As a result of the operation carried out with the support of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Women's Defense Units (YPJ) and People's Defense Units (YPG), the families of many ISIS members called on to their countries to take them back. The same families who spoke to ANHA told how they came to Syria and Turkey's relations with ISIS.

 

ISIS AND TURKEY ESTABLISHED JOINT ASSOCIATIONS TO RECRUIT ISIS MEMBERS 

 

Eyşe Selîm (42) from Turkistan, one of the women members of ISIS, stated that she was transferred to Syria via Turkey, and pointed to the “Al Hesbe” women and the institutions established in Turkey by the Turkish State to send people to Syria. Selîm, who is from Turkistan and Uyghur ethnicity, was married in Turkestan at the age of 14. After her husband and 2 children were arrested in Turkestan because of his radical Islamist ideas, Selîm went to Turkey illegally in 2014 with her 3 children. Selim, who lived in Istanbul for a year and a half, told that some people called her and invited him to join the "Islamic State".

 

SHE MARRIED AN ISIS MEMBER

 

Stating that many people from Turkistan live in Turkey, Selim said: “They established communities and institutions especially for recruitment. There are the same congregations in Idlib. A man from Turkestan talked to me to come to Syria. I don't know where he got my phone number from. He was talking to me on the Internet. He said that there are free houses in Syria. He said I would be given money every month. He asked me if I wanted to get married, and I said I didn't want to get married. ‘Life here is difficult' he said, 'Go to the Islamic State. Many people are already coming here to be 'martyrs'."

 

Selim who crossed over to Syria without having any problems at the border, moved to Raqqa in 2016 with her children. Marrying an old ISIS member there, Selim said: "Unmarried women can not move freely. My 9-year-old son was wounded in the battle in Baxoz and died after a year. My second husband also died in Baxoz.

 

THEY KILL THE WOMEN WHO REJECT SHERIA 

 

Selîm, who moved to Hol Camp after the liberation of the area they were in, conveyed the following about her life in the camp: “Life in the camp is very difficult. I forgot to bring my gloves with me one day. My hands were out in the open, all of the women were staring. Women here apply a lot of pressure to other women. If we don't live like them they burn our tents. We all have to wear black jilbabs and act according to sharia. I am very afraid of these women. I don't know what will happen to me tomorrow as I'm talking to you with my face not covered.  Women who do not accept sharia are killed. They kill them with knives and guns.”

  

‘EL HESBÊ' WOMEN

 

Selîm informed that these women who put pressure on them are the women of “El Hesbê” and said, “This group consists of 30 to 50 women. There are foreign women among them. Especially those who are ideological, those who specialize in sharia ideology, are among them. Nobody knows them, they are forbidden to be recognized. These people have agents in the camp. They are informed about who is doing what and how. With this information, they find that person no matter how far they run. They break their hands and feet. They do this especially late at night. They enter the tents with their faces covered and no one recognizes them."

 

'WE HAVEN'T SEEN ANY SOLDIERS AT THE BORDER'

 

Elbîna Ebdulselam Ebdullah, another ISIS member originally from Russia, said the following about her arrival in Syria: “I, my husband and children came to Turkey from Russia by plane in 2016. We crossed over from Turkey to Syria very easily, we did not see any soldiers on our way or at the border. We stayed in Turkey for a long time.” Noting that they came to Raqqa when they first crossed over to Syria, Elbîna said, “They separated men and women there. There was constant warfare and aircraft bombardments."

 

Elbîna, who was married twice, has 3 children. Stating that she was constantly threatened in the camp, Elbîna continued: “There are constant problems between us and the women there. They accuse us of abandoning the Islamic State. We don't want to stay here. My children cannot receive education here. They teach the children of the women in the camp to kill and torture people.”

 

Elbîna called on Russia to remove them from the Hol Camp and take them back to their country, saying, "We can't live here any longer."