Idlib | Turkish Jandarma kills child near border with Iskenderun Region

Idlib Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have documented the death of a child after being shot by the Turkish border guard forces “Jandarma”, while he was in front of his house in Al-Madlousah village in Salqin countryside in north-western Idlib on the border with Iskenderun Region.

 

On February 12, SOHR activists documented the death of a child after being shot by the Turkish border guard forces “Jandarma”, while he was working with his grandfather in a farmland in Salhab village in Jisr Al-Shughour countryside in north-western Idlib, nearly 500 metres away from the border wall.

 

According to Syrian Observatory statistics, the number of Syrian civilians who have been killed by the Turkish Jandarma since the beginning of the Syrian Revolution, has risen to 465 including 85 children under the age of eighteen and 44 females over the age of eighteen.