Syria/Turkey: Turkish Border Guards Escalate Violence Against Syrian Asylum Seekers
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In the present report, Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) will address the abuses meted out to Syrian asylum seekers by the Turkish border guards (Gendarmerie). The report will cite testimonies from credible sources on 28 substantiated cases of Syrian asylum seekers who were killed and underwent beatings, ill-treatment, and unjustified torture by Turkish border guards for attempting to cross Turkish borders illegally in the months of June, July, August, and September 2021. Turkish border guards killed at least five Syrian asylum seekers through severe torture, shot and killed three others, including two children, and forcibly repatriated many others.
