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.
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.