Turkish border guards kill young man from Syria’s Hasakah
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Sunday, a young man from the village of Karhouk in the countryside of Hasakah, northeast Syria, was killed by the Turkish border guards, while trying to cross the border towards Turkey, from the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain).
The Violations Documentation Center in Northern Syria (VDC-NSY) said that the young man had internal bleeding, also known as hemorrhaging, after being beaten and tortured by the Turkish gendarmerie the moment he tried to cross the border towards Turkey, through the village of Aziziyah in the city of Sere Kaniye.
This brings the number of Syrians killed by the Turkish gendarmerie to 511, including 67 women and 95 children. And the number of people wounded, shot or attacked, has risen to 978, to date, according to the VDC-NSY.
Killings at the hands of the Turkish gendarmerie are occasionally repeated on the border. The young Salar Othman from the city of Qamishli, and Hamadeh Abd al-Hussein from the town of Deshisha in the countryside of Hasakah, were killed in late August, while trying to cross the border.
On September 15, a medical source at the Martyr Khabat Hospital in the city of Derbasiyah said that four young men from the city of Hasakah were severely beaten by Turkish border guards while trying to cross the Syrian-Turkish border.
It is noteworthy that Turkey had built a separation wall along its 911 km border to prevent infiltration, which resulted in the continuous deaths and injuries of civilians.
The VDC-NSY, however, has been able over the past months to collect data that included Turkish soldiers killing and wounding hundreds of people trying to cross the Turkish border.