Detailed report on crimes of Turkey, its affiliates in occupied northern Syria
A Syrian human rights center published a detailed report with numbers on the ongoing crimes of the Turkish occupation state and its mercenaries in the occupied areas of northern Syria.
The Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries continue to commit more crimes, as the Violations Documentation Center recorded the martyrdom of 2,105 people and the injury of 8,290 others, while the number of kidnapped people has reached 9,241 people since the beginning of the Turkish attack in northern Syria. Nearly 8,006 of them have been released, while the fate of 1,235 is still unknown.
The number of those killed under torture in prisons reached 182 people, and the number of Syrians killed by Turkish gendarme bullets rose to 586 Syrians, including (106 children under the age of 18, and 69 women), as of January 31, 2024, and 3,089 people were injured by gendarme bullets. Among those who tried to cross the border, or residents of Syrian border villages and towns, or farmers, and owners of lands adjacent to the border.
Since the beginning of this year (2024), the Turkish gendarme has killed 41 people, while the number of those injured during an attempt to cross the border has exceeded 133 people, including injuries with permanent disability as a result of brutal beatings with sticks, guns, kicking, and throwing them behind the border wall while they are bleeding.
The Violations Documentation Center in Northern Syria also documented the following crimes during January 2024:
Areas west of the Euphrates; Al-Bab, Jarabulus, Azaz, and the occupied Afrin canton:
- Three people were killed and injured as a result of shelling, clashes within residential neighborhoods, mines, and explosions.
- (44) people were kidnapped, and (27) people were subjected to torture.
-Demands for ransom and kidnapping (25) people.
(16) people injured, including (4) children; As a result of bombing, house raids, explosive fragments, bombings, or as a result of being beaten by mercenaries.
- 32 bombings of populated villages, leaving 21 civilians injured and 9 citizens killed.
The Violations Documentation Center also updated the latest figures on victims of Turkish crimes continuing from October 9, 2019 until the end of January 2024:
The number of civilian martyrs as a result of the Turkish occupation’s aggression and the aggressive practices reached (855) civilians, including (113) children and (98) women, and the number of wounded (4243), including (354) children and (301) women, and were also killed under torture or as a result of poor detention conditions (65) people.
The arrests included (1,051) people, including (352) people being subjected to torture, and the families of (415) others demanding ransom.
- The number of schools destroyed by the Turkish bombing and the bombing of its mercenaries reached (53) schools, and (901) schools were disrupted, while (100) thousand male and female students were deprived of education.
- The number of hospitals and medical points that were bombed reached 53 medical points, and (26) people were injured, and they were medical workers. (5) were killed, of whom (3) were field-executed by “National Army” mercenaries.
The Turkish attack caused the injury of (439) people with physical disabilities, including (166) civilians. (339) others were also injured with physical disabilities in explosions and remnants of war in the areas of Girê Spi/Tal Abyad and Serêkaniyê/Ras al-Ain following the Turkish attack, including (89) children and (75) women.
(9) journalists were killed and (25) others injured. The Turkish occupation also assassinated a journalist’s parents. His mercenaries seized his house and the house of (12) journalists in Girê Spi and Serêkaniyê.
Total documentation of crimes from February 2018, until the end of January 2023:
(2105) civilians (citizens, settlers) were killed, and (193) people were killed under torture.
The kidnappings affected (9,241) people, and it was documented that (2,121) people were subjected to torture. Nearly (8,006) of them were released, while the fate of the rest of the detainees is still unknown.
- Ransom demands and kidnapping: (2654) people.
- The number of attacks targeting public facilities and infrastructure (243) in NE Syria.
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