QAMIŞLO, ROJAVA
According to the ANF, the invading Turkish state’s invasion and genocide attacks against Rojava Kurdistan and northern Syria continue, while the future of thousands of ISIS gangs under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) remains uncertain.
SDF and Autonomous Administration officials had previously declared that they had downsized the struggle against ISIS gangs, strategically prioritising of the war against Turkish occupation attacks. Drawing attention to the partnership between ISIS and the Turkish state, the officials explained that should the Turkish occupation attempts be successful, ISIS prisoners would be released by the Turkish state.
One of the names that prove the relationship between the Turkish state and ISIS is Casper Hansen, a Danish citizen born in 1991 and captured in Baxoz.
Hansen, a university graduate, worked as a civil engineer in many important companies in Denmark. ISIS member Hansen has spent the past 10 months in custody and is known to play an important role in many massacres. After receiving injuries during these massacres, wounded Hansen had been taken to Turkey and treated by fascist Turkish doctors for 3 months.
Joined ISIS through IHH (humanitarian aid foundation)
Hansen (Abu Majid Danimerki), who ANF met in Rojava Kurdistan in a high-security prison under the control of the Autonomous Administration of Northern Syria, said that he had converted to Islam in 2011 despite the reaction of his family.
Hansen said that he met founder organizations in mosques he visited while in Denmark. Hansen, who claimed to come from Denmark to help civilian people in Syria, explained how he joined ISIS through the Turkish Humanitarian Aid Foundation, IHH, which has been stated by countless ISIS prisoners.
“In September 2013, I came to Hatay [Turkey] from Copenhagen by plane. There was a Danish man named Abu Isa who came to Syria before me, and through him, I went to a village near Idlib. It was easy to cross the border, I had no problems. My aim was to work with civil society organizations to help civilians affected by the war. I met IHH officials there and told them that I wanted to work with them but they refused to accept me because I did not speak Turkish. IHH officials directed many people like me to the Ahraru Damascus organization that was influential at the time. The IHH had close relations with many jihadist organizations at the time. I stayed in Ahraru Damascus for a while. I joined ISIS at the beginning of 2014 because I faced many problems within this group.”
ISIS took me to Turkey
After joining ISIS, he said that he had been trained for a month in a camp near Hama and then sent to war zones. Wounded in the foot during a battle he entered at the beginning of 2014, Hansen was taken to a hospital in Reqa. Hansen explains, “the means of treatment were low in Reqa, so ISIS took me to Turkey.”
Hansen explained, “ISIS members drove me to a house where wounded ISIS members were being treated. This house was a special home of ISIS, bringing their severely injured and senior staff here. When I arrived there were dozens of injured ISIS in this house. This house was used as a hospital, it contained all kinds of medical equipment. During the day, Turkish doctors came to do our treatment. I was treated in this house for 3 months. The responsible of this house was a Turk named Abu Bekir. ”
Stating that the Turkish state borders are open all the way for ISIS, without giving detail, Hansen said that many of ISIS’ needs were covered by the Turkish state.
Married a 14-year-old
After 3 months of treatment in Turkey, Hansen was taken to El Bab, which was then in the control of ISIS. After staying in El Bab and Minbic for a while, Hansen was sent to Reqa again. Hansen said he married a 14-year-old Syrian girl when he was in El Bab and said he had a child.
When asked if it is normal to marry a 14-year-old child, Hansen replied: “Being 14-year-old does not mean you are a child. She was that age when I married her, now she is 18, this is very normal. Marrying at this age is normal in Arab countries. If you marry a woman when you’re young, you can grow her up, you can train her, and she’ll be a woman. I already paid my wife’s father when I got married.”
I would love to live in Turkey because…
Captured after being active in Reqa, Meyadin, Hecin and lastly on ISIS’ last part of land Baxoz; Hansen states that his only wish is to live in Turkey with his wife and son.
When asked where he would want to be sentenced, Hansen replied “I, as well as many other ISIS members, would love to go to Turkey because Turkey has no problem with us. I would like to be tried in my own country, Denmark, but my preference is Turkey. I want to live there with my family.”
Concluding, Hansen says “The most important factor about where I want to be judged is wherever I will be punished less, and that is why I want to stand trial in Turkey.
