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22 Albanian women and children still in Syria, how Eva Dumani was illegally rescued from the camp in Turkey

2026-02-15 19:58:06Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Eva Dumani

Eva Dumani, a 21-year-old girl who was able to join her mother and brother in Tirana, 12 years after being kidnapped by her jihadist father, managed to leave Syria through several groups that helped her cross illegally into Turkey. From there, in cooperation with the Albanian authorities, she was safely returned to Tirana. But like Eva, there are 22 other Albanians, women and children, who, with the fall of the regime there, have fled the hellish Al-Hol camp. They are still in Syria, while in previous rescue operations, they have refused to return to Albania.

The war situation in Syria has changed significantly over the past year, following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime and the coming to power of a transitional government that quickly reached a cooperation agreement with the United States and the Anti-ISIS Alliance to combat any remaining cells of extremism, which, however, continue to carry out small attacks on security forces.

The Syrian government is also taking control of large camps like Al-Hol, once home to around 70,000 people living in tents, a territory closely linked to our country. There were dozens of Albanian families there, most of whom had voluntarily joined the now-completed civil war as jihadists.

Such was Shkëlzen Dumani. He lost his life in the war shortly after 2014, when he took his two minor children, Eva, 9 years old, and Endri, 7 at the time, with him to Syria. The youngest was lucky enough to return to his mother in October 2020, in an Albanian operation with the help of partners who managed to get him out of the camp. Eva Dumani remained in Al-Hol, considered the hellish camp. The former head of anti-terror in the State Police, Gledis Nano, told Report TV that he managed to see little Eva in a tent with her brother, but saw in her eyes the fear of returning to Albania. Foster families, inside the camp with almost inhuman conditions, indoctrinated them that if they returned to their countries, no one would let them practice Islam. So, Eva remained there, covered in a scarf, just as she returned to her mother's arms in Tirana, on Saturday, February 14.

But how did Eva Dumani, now 21 years old, manage to leave the Syrian camp?

Sources for Report TV said that Eva was helped by human trafficking groups to illegally cross from Syria to the Turkish border.

Without an Albanian passport in hand, having left Tirana since 2014, and alone facing Turkish authorities who could raise suspicions of terrorism against her, sources said that Eva Dumani called her uncle, Xhetan Ndregjoni, the devoted family member who stopped at nothing to bring her nephew and niece back to their homeland. With the risk of being detained by Turkish authorities, she needed the help of the Albanian state to come to Albania.

Communication with the Turkish side, through diplomatic channels, has been key to her return to the country, the sources said. The same sources point out that currently, 22 other Albanians who have been in the Syrian camps have been identified, women and children, mainly orphans, 10 other Albanian men in prison and another part whose fate is unknown.

For the 22 Albanian women and children, sources say that they are suspected of having left the camps and taken shelter with other local families. Sooner or later, they too may take the same return route as Eva Dumani, to Turkey illegally, and then, with the help of Albanian authorities, return to their homeland.

However, if they are not willing to return, locating them is much more difficult for the Albanian authorities, given that they are scattered and outside the camps. The difficulty also lies in establishing communication with the new Syrian authorities, which have not yet fully taken shape after the change of system.

In 4 previous operations that were carried out in total from 2019-202, where 38 women and children were rescued, these Albanians remaining in Syria have categorically refused to return and have gone into hiding.../ Shqiptarja.com


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