Turkish border guards, and in their effort to combat Islamic State and the historic Kurdish enemy PKK, have carried out a series of breaches and crimes against Syrian displaced who are trying to escape fight between conflicting parties in northern Syria.
Number of Syrian displaced, including children and women, were killed in the last four months on the Turkish border during their attempt to cross illegally into Turkey as border crossings keep shutting its doors due to a package of tough procedures came after Suicide bombing and soldiers killed by PKK and ISIS.
Turkish security forces have reportedly fired warning shots and used water cannons to push Syrian refugees back from the frontier, But that policy has been changed recently.
According to agencies, eight Syrians were killed, on June 13, when Turkish border guards opened fire against them. The civilians were trying to cross into Turkey through the western areas of Serekaniye (Ras al-Ain) city, in Hasakah province. In another incident, 4 people from one family were killed in July on the border north of Aleppo.
Turkey plans to cut down the flow of Syrian refugees, AFP reported.
The Syrians, women and children among them, were allowed no further than the barbed wire fences around the Turkish crossings.
Turkey has taken in 1.8 million Syrian refugees since the Syrian revolution erupted in 2011, spending nearly $5.5 billion to provide for the displaced.
Meanwhile, Syrians are trapped on the two banks of border as crossings' gates still close, large number of Syrian who try to cross illegally have families in Turkey.
People of border territories are still not familiar with new tough procedures. Some of them were swindled by greedy smugglers ad some corrupted border guards.
Activists said crossing the border has become a dream, "Its impossible," even media activists and journalists are suffering, just some exceptions reported for doctors and aid workers."
Mahmoud al-Haji Othman and Aktham Alwani, two Syrian journalist arrested last month by border guards north of Aleppo, to be freed late after a barrage of torture and humiliation.
Othman said the kind of torture i tested for my illegal crossing attempt was similar to what I watched in (Assad) torture videos.
We stayed in detention for 20 hours with 60 people in a tiny room without food aor water.
“The Turkish border police never take into account the risks those people are exposed to in their hometowns due to ISIS attacks,”Salman Alo, a Kurdish media activist, told ARA News, Syrian website covers Syrian north news, “The border police have killed hundreds of Syrian at the borderline with Syria in the past four years.”
The website documented the death of more than 30 Syrian citizens in 2014, beside cases of torture at Turkish border detention centers.
TURKISH SAFE ZONE
Turkey who push hard to establish its "safe zone", a 98km-long, 45km-wide area to be patrolled by members of the opposition Free Syrian Army.a 98km-long, 45km-wide area to be patrolled by members of the opposition Free Syrian Army.
The U.S. State Department denied on Tuesday it has agreed to a “safe zone” in northern Syria, after broadcaster CNN Turk quoted a senior Turkish diplomat as saying the countries have settled on terms for such a zone in their campaign against ISIS.
On Tuesday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed that Turkey would press on with its relentless campaign against Kurdish militants “until not one terrorist” was left, as Ankara launched new airstrikes against the rebels.
Turkey is currently pressing a two-pronged “anti-terror” offensive against ISIS in Syria and PKK militants in northern Iraq and the southeast following a wave of attacks. But so far, the airstrikes have overwhelmingly concentrated on the separatist Kurdish rebels, who have responded by tearing up a 2013 cease-fire and waging a bloody campaign against the security forces.
Number of Syrian displaced, including children and women, were killed in the last four months on the Turkish border during their attempt to cross illegally into Turkey as border crossings keep shutting its doors due to a package of tough procedures came after Suicide bombing and soldiers killed by PKK and ISIS.
Turkish security forces have reportedly fired warning shots and used water cannons to push Syrian refugees back from the frontier, But that policy has been changed recently.
According to agencies, eight Syrians were killed, on June 13, when Turkish border guards opened fire against them. The civilians were trying to cross into Turkey through the western areas of Serekaniye (Ras al-Ain) city, in Hasakah province. In another incident, 4 people from one family were killed in July on the border north of Aleppo.
Turkey plans to cut down the flow of Syrian refugees, AFP reported.
The Syrians, women and children among them, were allowed no further than the barbed wire fences around the Turkish crossings.
Turkey has taken in 1.8 million Syrian refugees since the Syrian revolution erupted in 2011, spending nearly $5.5 billion to provide for the displaced.
Meanwhile, Syrians are trapped on the two banks of border as crossings' gates still close, large number of Syrian who try to cross illegally have families in Turkey.
People of border territories are still not familiar with new tough procedures. Some of them were swindled by greedy smugglers ad some corrupted border guards.
Activists said crossing the border has become a dream, "Its impossible," even media activists and journalists are suffering, just some exceptions reported for doctors and aid workers."
Mahmoud al-Haji Othman and Aktham Alwani, two Syrian journalist arrested last month by border guards north of Aleppo, to be freed late after a barrage of torture and humiliation.
Othman said the kind of torture i tested for my illegal crossing attempt was similar to what I watched in (Assad) torture videos.
We stayed in detention for 20 hours with 60 people in a tiny room without food aor water.
“The Turkish border police never take into account the risks those people are exposed to in their hometowns due to ISIS attacks,”Salman Alo, a Kurdish media activist, told ARA News, Syrian website covers Syrian north news, “The border police have killed hundreds of Syrian at the borderline with Syria in the past four years.”
The website documented the death of more than 30 Syrian citizens in 2014, beside cases of torture at Turkish border detention centers.
TURKISH SAFE ZONE
Turkey who push hard to establish its "safe zone", a 98km-long, 45km-wide area to be patrolled by members of the opposition Free Syrian Army.a 98km-long, 45km-wide area to be patrolled by members of the opposition Free Syrian Army.
The U.S. State Department denied on Tuesday it has agreed to a “safe zone” in northern Syria, after broadcaster CNN Turk quoted a senior Turkish diplomat as saying the countries have settled on terms for such a zone in their campaign against ISIS.
On Tuesday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed that Turkey would press on with its relentless campaign against Kurdish militants “until not one terrorist” was left, as Ankara launched new airstrikes against the rebels.
Turkey is currently pressing a two-pronged “anti-terror” offensive against ISIS in Syria and PKK militants in northern Iraq and the southeast following a wave of attacks. But so far, the airstrikes have overwhelmingly concentrated on the separatist Kurdish rebels, who have responded by tearing up a 2013 cease-fire and waging a bloody campaign against the security forces.
Zaman Al Wasl
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