Two young civilians were killed Friday night by Turkish border guards while trying to cross the Syrian-Turkish border northwest of Idlib, north of Syria.
Border guards shot Malik Bakr al-Hajj Ali and Muhammad Ali al-Duraibi, who was from the town of Hara in the southern governorate of Dara’a, while he was trying to cross the border, killing him immediately.
A civilian was killed on May 8 by Turkish border guards while trying to enter Turkey illegally from the town of Drakush.
The “gendarme” targeting civilians attempting to cross the border from Syria fleeing the Syrian war is repeated as part of Turkey’s security tightening and the construction of a wall along its 911-kilometer border to prevent the entry of refugees, resulting in continuous civilian deaths and injuries.