Turkish border guards kill and injure three women in Idlib

North-Press Agency

A displaced Syrian woman who was residing in Aleppo refugee camp No.3 on the borders with Turkey in the vicinity of Darkush town, in western Idlib countryside, was killed , while two others  were injured upon Turkish border guards’ fire shot, during the past 24 hours. According to local media sources in Idlib countryside

The woman passed away immediately after being shot, while bullets hit two other women while displacing towards the Turkish side, to the opposite of Darkush area.

Meanwhile, social media accounts have reported growing resentment among residents and IDPs over Turkey’s killing of more civilians by its border guards, while closing its borders to Syrians who are fleeing from death, using them as  a threat to Europe.

Local sources in the area confirmed that they are continuously exposed to such incidents as a result of “unjustified shooting” by the Turkish border guards, who targets the areas with no reason, especially the road between the villages of Doria and Darkush.

The operation of killings Syrians have been repeated by Turkish borders guards as they cross the Syrian-Turkish borders,  of which the most recent  one was the killing of a young Syrian refugee from Deir ez-Zor countryside last August,  as she was trying to cross the borders from Idlib countryside.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (a Syrian Organization for Human Rights) has made statistics on the number of people killed by Turkish forces “Gendarme”, which was estimated at 431 civilians since March 2011, shot, including  77  children and 41  women.