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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian IDPs targeted by the Turkish border guards in Idlib
2019-12-12
[NPASYRIA] Although The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
 is one of the guarantor states of the de-escalation agreement in northwestern Syria, it is stepping up its offensive toward the internally displaced people and the civilians who fled the war in Idlib, towards the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish borders. Where the displaced people who try to cross the borders to enter Ottoman Turkish territories illegally, are attacked with live gun-shots by the Ottoman Turkish border guards, killing and wounding dozens of Syrian civilians, including women and kiddies.

ASSAULT AND LARGE SUMS OF MONEY
Furthermore, the intensively deployed Ottoman Turkish guards on the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish borders, deliberately target the camps nearby the borders with light and medium weapons, especially after control over large areas of Syrian agricultural lands near the towns of Aqrabat and Kafr Lusin, in the northern countryside of Idlib.

Ahmad al-Yaseen, a young man from northern Hama, told North-Press that he tried several times to cross into the Ottoman Turkish territories to work there and secure a living for his family, after he was displaced from Hama countryside and lost his land, which was his only source of livelihood. He added that every time he tried to enter Turkey, he was arrested by the border guards, who were severely beating him. "One of my relatives was severely beaten and his bones were broken after being hit by an iron bar with no mercy," Ahmad said.

Regarding the sums of money they pay, al-Yaseen explained: "We pay the smuggler $500 in addition to another $50 in favor of the so-called border sector of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
," stressing that it is impossible for anyone to enter without paying this tax to the HTS bad boys, who deploy offices for them In Urim al-Joz, Harem, and other bordering areas where smuggling takes place. While one of the workers in smuggling into Turkey (Kh. al-Hajji), from the town of Harem, told North-Press that during his smuggling work, he was subjected dozens of times to firing shots by the Ottoman Turkish border guards, the matter that often causes the death and injury of several people accompanying him.

"Last time when I was trying to get a group of 35 people including children and women into the Ottoman Turkish side, we were subjected to direct gun-shots, which resulted in the injury of several civilians, including a woman, where the Ottoman Turkish border guards managed to arrest most of them, and beat them horrendously," he added.

EXPLOITATION OF THE DISPLACED PEOPLE BY THE HTS
According to al-Hajji, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) imposes taxes on each smuggler, as its offices operating in the border zone force civilians to get a paper specifying the name of the person, and the amount of money paid for the smuggler on the pretext of protecting them and not being used by those smugglers.
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