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Turkish Border Guards Convicted of Torturing, Killing Syrians
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Turkish border guards convicted of torturing, killing Syrians
Four Turkish border guards were given life sentences on Thursday for the torture of nine Syrian migrants who had entered the country to seek asylum, two of whom died from their injuries. The incident took place on March 11, 2023, when the Turkish border police arrested nine Syrians attempting to cross the Syria-Turkey border into Hatay province. In photographs of the refugees taken immediately following their arrest, the investigators into the c…
A Turkish court has sentenced four Turkish soldiers to two life sentences with aggravated imprisonment, after convicting them of torturing Syrian refugees to death inside a land forces security center in Hatay province, southern Turkey.
Border guards tortured two Syrian migrants in March 2023. Seven other border guards were sentenced for covering up the crime and tampering with evidence.
Turkey jails 4 border guards for life for torturing Syrian migrants to death - Stockholm Center for Freedom
A Turkish court has sentenced four border guards to life in prison for torturing two Syrian migrants to death along the Syrian border in 2023, according to a verdict obtained by Agence France-Presse. The ruling, delivered earlier this week in Hatay province, found the officers guilty of fatally beating the migrants with iron bars and forcing them to swallow gasoline. The victims, identified as Abdurrezzak Kastal and Abdulsettar Elhaccar, were am…
Meeting with Syrian Foundations Minister Muhammed Abu El-Khayr Shukri, the President of Religious Affairs, Ali Erbas, said, "The Syrians in our country today are our brothers. We have embraced them and continue to embrace them."
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