Turkish border guards routinely torture, kill and commit other human rights abuses on Syrians attempting to cross the border into Turkiye, Human Rights Watch has stated. In a report released by HRW today, it accused Turkish border guards of indiscriminately targeting Syrian asylum seekers by preventing them from crossing the border through the use of excessive force. According to Hugh Williamson, HRW's Europe and Central Asia Director, "Turkish gendarmes and armed forces in charge of border control routinely abuse and indiscriminately shoot at Syrians along the Syrian-Turkish border, with hundreds of deaths and injuries recorded in recent years." Williamson stressed that "Arbitrary killings of Syrians are particularly egregious and part of a pattern of brutality by Turkish border guards that […]
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