Young Armenian boy among those killed by Turkish attacks on Afrin
A young Armenian boy is among those who lost their lives as a result of Turkish airstrikes on Afrin’s Rajo district on January 24, ANF News reports.
According to the source, the young boy, Roşêr Konîs, is from one of the Armenian families living in Afrin. His mother Semsa Konis and sister Hanife Koniş also suffered injuries in the Turkish attack.
An acquaintance, Hartiyon Kîvork, stated that grandfathers of the Konis family had fled the Armenian Genocide and settled in Afrin a hundred years ago. Kîvork said: “However, they were targeted by aerial bombardments of the invading Turkish army here today.”
Earlier the Armenian Embassy in Syria confirmed the information that an ethnic Armenian had been wounded during the Turkish military operations against Kurds in Afrin.