Murdered Syrian girl found in well in Turkey
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – The killing of a nine-year-old Syrian girl by a Turkish citizen in Turkey’s southern city of Kilis sparked anger on Wednesday amid increasing murders against Syrians in Turkey.
Turkish media outlets reported about the murder after the Turkish police found the body of the Syrian girl, Ghina Marjam, in a well inside a house next to her house in Kilis.
Turkish media sources reported that the girl hailed from the town of Hraytan, some 10 km north of the city of Aleppo. She had gone missing two days earlier while returning home from school with her classmates.
After her disappearance, the police carried out search operations in the region. Surveillance cameras showed the girl arriving in her neighborhood and then disappearing near the killer’s house.
Upon inspecting the killer’s house, the police found the body of Ghina with a rope tied around her neck and at the end of it tied with coal rocks to drown the body in the well’s water, which is 12 m deep.
Following a manhunt in a neighborhood in Kilis, security teams were able to arrest and detain the suspect (H.B) in a detention center for investigations, according to Turkish media.
Some sources noted that the killer has a flower store in Kilis and that his son had previously stabbed a Syrian man with a knife, according to the pro-Syrian opposition Syria TV.
On May 10, 2023, a Syrian refugee from Aleppo was stabbed and killed by young Turkish men in Hatay province in southern Turkey.
Another young Syrian man, Nayef al-Nayef, 19, was stabbed to death on January 11 in his house by Turkish men in the city of Istanbul. Human rights sources confirmed at the time that the reasons were “pure racist.”
Turkish authorities claim there are 3.7 million Syrian refugees officially living in Turkey.