Turkish border guards kill old man working in Idlib countryside, SOHR reports

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that an old man from Al-Eis town in the southern countryside of Aleppo was shot dead by Turkish Border Guards, while he was working in a farmland near Al-Mushayrifah village in Salqeen countryside in north-western Idlib. The man had a headshot.

According to Syrian Observatory statistics, the number of Syrian civilians who have been killed by the Turkish Jandarma (military police) since the beginning of the Syrian Revolution, has risen to 502. These include 92 children under the age of eighteen and 45 females over the age of eighteen.

“We, at the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), condemn attacks and violent pushbacks by the Turkish Jandarma (Gendarmerie) against Syrian civilians who flee the woes of war near the Syria-Turkey border,” the Observatory said.

As Turkey’s government keeps closing border crossings to Syrians while allowing military vehicles and soldiers to enter Syria through the same crossings, worsening an already disastrous situation in Syria, Turkish gendarmerie (military police) continue their atrocities against Syrian civilians seeking a safe refuge from the devastating military battles.

In January 2022, SOHR documented the death of three civilians, including a child, by the Turkish gendarmerie in Qamishlo, Kobani and Idlib. SOHR also documented the torture of six other civilians by the Turkish gendarmerie while attempting to cross into Turkish territory.