Turkish border guards arrest 10 Syrians in Hasakah
SERE KANIYE, Syria (North Press) – Turkish border guards arrested on Wednesday 10 people while trying to cross the border to the Turkish territories from Hasakah Governorate in northeastern Syria.
The Turkish border guard arrested ten asylum seekers, including a Palestinian, after injuring three of them who were transferred to the Observation Center in the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain), north of Hasakah, awaiting their transfer to the detention center in the Turkish city of Urfa, southern Turkey, after verifying their security situation, an exclusive source told North Press.
The source said the people tried to cross the border from al-Aziziyah village, west of Sere Kaniye, intending to cross to the Turkish territories by smugglers. However, the border guards shot them.
Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad, north of Raqqa, has been under the occupation of the Turkish forces and has been controlled by the SNA factions since 2019 following the so-called “Peace Spring” military operation that aimed to push away the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) under the pretext of protecting the Turkish national security.
The number of people injured in Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad in August as a result of targeting them by the border guards while trying to cross the border reached 15, including women, according to the source.