A Saudi father has been accused of abducting his two sons, 10 and 11 years, and sending them to Syria to fight with the opposition forces.
After reporting them missing, the woman was told by the Saudi embassy in Turkey that her sons, Abdullah and Ahmed Al Shayeq, are believed to have crossed the Turkish border into Syria with their father and could have joined the opposition fighters.
Saudi ambassador in Turkey, Adel Mirdad, said the embassy had contacted the Turkish foreign ministry to help locate the two boys and bring them back.
“The embassy conveyed a message from their mother that the father had tempted their sons with money and sweets before taking them to Turkey and sneaking them into Syria.
“We are seeking help from the Turkish foreign ministry to bring the two boys back to their mother as they are minors and have been misled by their father,” Mirdad said, quoted by the Saudi ‘Al Arabiya’ news network.
The network quoted the mother as saying their father smuggled her sons to Syria to fight along with the opposition forces to “burn her heart for them and take revenge against her following their separation”.
