TORTURING Kurdish women is deemed “halal” (lawful) by Turkish-backed jihadist groups in northern Syria, a survivor of one of the terrorists’ camps in Afrin said today.

Mercenaries from the Sultan Murad and Ahrar al-Sham brigades are accused of subjecting women to rape and brutal beatings while working in the so-called civil police force established after Turkey’s 2018 invasion of the peaceful north Syrian canton.

An eyewitness, identified only as Sara, gave details of her ordeal after she was arrested by the mercenaries at her home in April 2018, accused of hiding weapons on behalf of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Kurdish-led fighters who defeated Isis in the semi-autonomous enclave known as Rojava.