Turkish border guards kill civilian in Syria’s HASAKAH
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – A young man was killed and another was injured on Sunday in the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain), north of Hasakah, a governorate in northeast Syria, after Turkish border guards opened fire on them during attempting to cross the border into Turkey.
This came in tandem with an infighting that broke out between Turkish-backed Syrian armed opposition factions, also known as Syrian National Army (SNA) in the city.
In October 2019, Turkish forces, with the support of the SNA factions, launched the military operation “Peace Spring” against Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad under the pretext of pushing the fighters of the Kurdish-majority Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) away from the Turkish border with Syria.
As a result, they occupied the two cities and displaced approximately 300.000 civilians, human rights reports said.
The Turkish-occupied areas in northern Syria witness a state of security chaos, represented in almost daily human rights violations and continuous infighting between the SNA factions due to disputes over the sphere of influence.
A local source told North Press that a group of young men attempted to cross into Turkey through the Syrian-Turkish border nearby the village of Adwaniya, east of Sere Kaniye. However, they were fired upon by the Turkish border guards.
The deceased, 30, is from al-Mahatta neighborhood, in Sere Kaniye.
Those young men tried to get into Turkey, looking for jobs and escaping poverty resulted from deteriorating living conditions and dominance of unemployment in the area, according to the source.
On August 4, Turkish border guards killed a farmer in a village east of Kobani, northern Syria.
The Turkish border guards repeatedly target Syrian farmers in different areas while they work in their farmlands near the border.
Until mid-February, the Violations Documentation Center in Northern Syria (VDC-NSY) had documented the death of 525 Syrians, including 101 minors and 67 women, by Turkish border guards.
This is not the first time the Turkish border guards kill civilians, as on June 23, three young men from northeastern Syria were subjected to severe beating at the hands of the border guards while trying to cross Syrian-Turkish border.
Social media operating in SNA-held areas posted that a member of al-Agaidat clan, Ismail al-Sbeit, who hails from Deir ez-Zor Governorate, eastern Syria, lost his life at the hands of the border guards.
A militant of Turkish-backed Sultan Murad faction shot al-Sbeit after the latter rejected to get the militant home by his motorcycle, fearing of stealing it.