Damascus, April 24 (SANA) Turkish Ambassador to Syria Nuh Yilmaz said the arrest of Amjad Youssef has revived memory of the Tadamon massacre, describing the 2013 killings as one of the most heinous crimes committed in Syria. In a post on X, Yilmaz congratulated Syrian Internal Security Forces after Yousef was detained in Hama, and noted that the Tadamon district had a significant Turkmen presence at the time.
Yilmaz said the massacre remains among the most notorious atrocities of the Syrian revolution, noting that 288 civilians were executed while blindfolded, thrown into a pit and burned, with the crime later exposed through leaked video footage.
Syria’s Interior Ministry announced earlier that Yousef had been arrested over his role in the massacre, which took place on April 16, 2013, in southern Damascus during a crackdown by the deposed regime on areas outside its control. Local and rights documentation said detainees were blindfolded, bound and taken to a mass execution site, where they were shot and buried in a trench.
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