The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Turkey-Syria border | “Jandarma” shoots young man, and number of civilians killed by Jandarma since the start of the Syrian revolution increases to 452

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented today the death of a young man from the town of Binish in Idlib countryside, after being shot by Turkish border guards “Jandarma”, as he tried to cross the Syrian border into Turkish territory.

According to SOHR documentation, the number of Syrian civilians killed by “Jandarma” forces since the start of the Syrian revolution has risen to 452, including 80 children under the age of eighteen and 44 women over the age of eighteen.