News Center-21-year-old Yazidi woman, who was abducted in 2014 by a bodyguard of Salman Ali Farhan al-Issawi, former Iraqi commander for ISIS, has been rescued in Ankara by her relatives with the efforts of an international organization based in Europe. Her family reportedly paid a “ransom” of 15,000 dollars to the ISIS member in order to release the Yazidi woman.

 Nine years have passed since ISIs committed a genocide in Shengal in August 2014. Thousands of Yazidi women and children were abducted by ISIS during the genocide. After the defeat of ISIS in Iraq, many ISIS members fled to Turkey by taking the abducted Yazidi women and children with them.

She was abducted when she was 12

According to the report of Hale Gönültaş from the Artı Gerçek, the Yazidi woman, who has been rescued in Ankara, is one of the thousands of children abducted by ISIS in Shengal in 2014. She was abducted by ISIS when she was just 12.

 She was brought to Turkey illegally

In 2016, she was “bought” by an Iraqi ISIS member named Abu Hamza near the city of Tal Afar, west of Mosul. Abu Hamza brought her to Turkey illegally in 2019 and prepared a fake identity for her and then prepared a “Temporary protection identity document” given to Syrian refugees in Turkey.

She stayed at the home of ISIS family in Ankara

When her identity was ready, a Turkish citizen brought Ebu Hamza, the Yazidi girl and two more people to Ankara. An ISIS member and the Yazidi girl stayed at the home of an ISIS family in the Çubuk district of Ankara. Meanwhile, Abu Hamza had a religious marriage with a Turkish woman, whose husband was an ISIS member and killed in a conflict.

Then, Ebu Hamza rented a house in the Gölbaşı district of Ankara. Living with them, the Yazidi girl was subjected to all forms of violence.

 He contacted her family to demand “ransom”

 Ebu Hamza was planning to leave Turkey and needed money so he began to find out the family members of the Yazidi woman to demand a “ransom”. He got in contact with her family members living in Europe. Her family members held online chats with the Yazidi woman with the support of an international humanitarian aid organization. After receiving a ransom of 15,000 dollars, Ebu Hamza released the Yazidi woman at a point close to the highway. The Yazidi woman has reunited with her family.