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Turkish Military Kills 17 Refugees on Syrian Border in 3 Months - Watchdog

© AFP 2023 / YASIN AKGULA Turkish soldier gestures while standing on the hill overlooking damaged buildings following heavy fighting between government troops and Kurdish fighters in the Kurdish town of Cizre in southeastern Turkey, which lies near the border with Syria and Iraq, on March 2, 2016
A Turkish soldier gestures while standing on the hill overlooking damaged buildings following heavy fighting between government troops and Kurdish fighters in the Kurdish town of Cizre in southeastern Turkey, which lies near the border with Syria and Iraq, on March 2, 2016 - Sputnik International
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Turkish soldiers have killed at least 17 refugees on the border with Syria over the past three months, the president of the Human Rights Association of Turkey said on Tuesday.

GENEVA (Sputnik) — He said that many Sunni refugees had remained in Kurdish provinces as they were afraid of crossing into Turkey.

"Over the past three months, Turkish armed forces have killed 17 refugees trying to cross the border with Syria. Another 20 people were injured by police forces… We are closely monitoring what is happening on the Turkish-Syrian border," Ozturk Turkdogan told RIA Novosti.

Syrian refugees, stuck between the Jordanian and Syrian borders, wait to cross into Jordan, at the Hadalat border crossing, east of the Jordanian capital Amman, on January 14, 2016 - Sputnik International
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According to the Turkish Human Rights Association, at least 25 refugees were killed, and 52 were injured by Turkish police on the Syrian-Turkish border in 2015.

On Sunday, it was reported in the media that Turkish border guards had killed at least eight refugees, including women and children in a single day. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said it was investigating the reported killings, adding that it was not certain about the authenticity of the reports.

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