CENTRAL NEWS
7,000 abducted women and girls, mostly Ezidi, are being sold in Antep and Ankara through a web site named: “Attractive Infidels Bazaar.”
Amongst the thousands of women abducted by the Free Syrian Army, there are girls as young as 7, and women as old as 70.
These women and children are being sold in established markets or websites. Some are taken as second wives, and some as maids. Many women and girls are being repeatedly raped.
According to the narratives of the women who escaped from the mobs, sales take place in the deep web market. Facebook ads and brochures are also published.
The women or girls are being priced by gangs according to their age and characteristics.
With price tags ranging from eight thousand dollars to fifty thousand dollars, the women are advertised on Facebook, with the text: “to all brothers who are thinking of taking slaves, this slave is … thousand dollars.”
The fact that Syrian women are being marketed is not a first in Antep. In 2016, it was determined that ISIS had opened an office to market Ezidi women, disguised as a “sales office,” in Antep. During a police raid to the “office,” $370,000 had been found along with many foreign passports and an 1768-paged transfer receipt book containing information about millions of dollars worth of transfers between Syria and Turkey.
Lawsuits were filed against 6 Syrians who allegedly sold Ezidi women for money; despite all the evidence the 6 defendants were acquitted within 16 days after due to ‘insufficient evidence.’
Also in Antep, the German NDR and SWR channels revealed that ISIS offers Ezidi women and children, who were kidnapped in Iraq and Syria, for sale through a virtual system. The Ezidi women and children were sold in digital form with photographs and sold to the highest bidder.
It turned out that Ezidi families who participated in the auction to get their children back from ISIS spent more than $ 2.5 million to the organization for 250 Êzidî women and children.
It was determined that an Ezidi girl who was captured during the ISIS attack on Şengal, was sold in Ankara last year. Through the safe intermediaries of humanitarian organizations, the child was purchased from the organization and was reunited with her family.
