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Turkish border guards kill Syrian, injure others in Syria’s Idlib
2023-03-13
[NPASyria] On Saturday, a young man was killed under torture, and seven others sustained various injuries after being assaulted by Ottoman Turkish border guards while trying to get into The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
through the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border in north of Idlib, northwestern Syria.
A medical source in Bab al-Hawa Hospital told North Press that the hospital received a body of a young man and seven others who sustained fractures in their legs and arms after they were severely beaten by the Ottoman Turkish border guards.

The body was identified as Abdurrazaq Ahmad al-Qastal from the village of Samra in the eastern countryside of Hama Governorate, central Syria, and was an IDP in the town of Zardana in north of Idlib.

The source said the cause of the death of the young man was a head injury caused by an iron bar which led to internal bleeding in addition to significant torture marks on his body.

A day earlier, the hospital received 12 Syrians who were severely beaten by the Ottoman Turkish border guards while attempting to cross the border. It is expected that two of the injured may get leg amputation because their bones were completely shattered.

Syrians who try to cross into Turkey are exposed to be assaulted and shot by the border guards.

Monitoring and Documentation Department of North Press recorded the death of 16 people and the injury of 46 including one child and three women since early 2023.

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