22 Armenians were kidnapped from Kessab and taken to Turkey
14:45 29/03/2014 >> SOCIETY
Of those Armenians who remained in Kessab, 22 were kidnapped and taken
to Turkey, deputy chairman of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party
(SDHP) Armenia office, Syrian Armenian Vazgen Mesropyan told
Panorama.am.
“We have exact information that those people who did not leave their
homes in Kessab were kidnapped, with 11 people being unaccounted for,”
he said.
Mr Mesropyan noted that more than 40 Armenians did not leave Kessab.
The Armenian populated villages of Kessab in Syria were the target of
three days of brutal cross-border attacks from Turkey. Some 670
Armenian families, the majority of the population of Kessab, were
evacuated by the local Armenian community leadership to safer areas in
neighboring Basit and Latakia.
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