Popular resentment escalates in the countryside of Idlib because of the targeting and killing of Syrian civilians by the Turkish border guards

Idlib province – the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: several reliable sources asserted to the SOHR that an escalated popular resentment prevailed the border area between Idlib and Iskenderun, because of the targeting and killing of Syrian civilians during their attempts to cross the borders by the Turkish border guards, who also had opened fire of their machine guns at civilians passing by the borders, which further increased the resentment. The sources asserted to the SOHR that the Turkish border guards opened fire of machine guns last night at civilians during their attempts to cross the borders, injuring 5 civilians with different severity, and the civilians couldn’t be able to rescue them because the Turkish border guards keeps targeting them during their attempts to rescue the injured people.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of a child, who was shot by the Turkish border guards during his attempt to cross the border from Idlib to Iskenderun. The SOHR published 3 days ago that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that a young man was killed and his wife and their child were injured, by the bullets of Turkish border guards, thus, the number of casualties who were killed today, as a result of being shot by Turkish border guards while they were trying to cross to the Turkish side, increased to 2 persons, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that areas in the countryside of Idlib witnessed demonstrations during the daytime, in which the demonstrators demanded the Turkish forces to stop targeting citizens, and condemned the targeting of citizens while trying to cross the border and also targeting them inside the Syrian territory while passing through Kafr Loosen area at the border with the Sanjak of Alexandretta.

It’s important to mention that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published at the end of July 2017 that its received in the past month and weeks several videos shows the victims of the Turkish border guards, of who were killed while they were trying to find a safe haven in Turkey, while a lot of the videos showed the Turkish border guards assaulting Syrian citizens after being arrested during their attempts to cross the border line, where members of the Turkish border guards beat and insult them, the last video SOHR has received was on Sunday the 30th of July 2017, and the video showed assault by hands and by a whip on several arrested young men, the video showed the young men being beaten brutally and insulted intentionally while being asked: “what do you have in Turkey to come to it? And are you smugglers?! Are you going to come to Turkey again?!”, then one of the members called his friend and commanded him to beat one of the arrested young men, and told the member who was recording the video: send me the video so I can publish it on WhatsApp, then he threatened them in case they returned to Turkey, saying: “If you are afraid of beaten why did you come to Turkey, do you want us to treat you good?!”

This Targeting by the Turkish border guards raised the death toll of citizens who were killed by their bullets while trying to cross the border ,and some of them were killed under the brutal torture of some members, raising to 292 at least, including 55 child and 29 citizen women, the number of people documented by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights since the start of the Syrian revolution until the 30th of July 2017, all of them were killed in the continued targeting by the Turkish border guards for the Syrian citizens who escaped the military operation in their areas towards places in which they can find a safe haven the keeps them away of the death that is following them in their country Syria, in order for their children to have a better life and their fate doesn’t end up to be like the fate of more than 18500 children killed since the start of the Syrian revolution, or the fate of tens of thousands of other children who had permanent disabilities, or the fate of thousands of children who were dragged into the military operation and turned into fighters and bombers.