He further said that he had come to Ankara to meet with the Minister of Internal Affairs. “I hope this meeting will give some result and the minister will tell us something.”
“We are sickened by the fact that we have not seen our son in 15 months. Every day we think of him. His mother is barely holding up, mainly due to medicine. She is constantly crying and her psyche is broken,” the grieving father told Sputnik Turkey.
Serter’s brothers and sister look at his pictures every day and dream of their elder brother coming home soon.
“My youngest son has fallen sick due to all these troubles. I am always taking him to Ankara for treatment. I do not know what to do, whether to try and do something in Ankara in order to safe Serter or to spend nights in the hospital corridors, caring for my youngest son,” Tas said.
“This hopelessness is killing us. I ask the government to help our son to come back home,” he added.
His family continues to hope and wait for their son’s release.
Meanwhile, according to the Sputnik correspondent, on November 30, Daesh militants’ kidnapped two more Turkish soldiers near the village of Ed Dana to the west of al-Bab in the framework of operation Euphrates Shield.
It is reported that the Turkish soldiers were captured during an attack by the jihadists. They were first taken to al-Bab and from there to Raqqa.
Al-Bab is one of Daesh’s last remaining strongholds near the Turkish border. Capturing the city is of strategic importance to Turkey in order to prevent the Syrian Kurds taking it and unifying their own territories.
