Turkey War Crimes: Leaked video shows Erdogan's militia executing unarmed civilians in Syria

Militia Backed by Turkey Kills Two Kurdish Prisoners

Despite Erdogan's ban of critical news reports and comments on Turkey’s military invasion in northern Syria, several videos recorded by Syrian Turkomans fighting as mercenaries along the turkish army leaked online by the mercenaries themselves.

Various news outlets are confirming the validity of the scenes caught on video, as depicted above, amongst them, the Middle East Eye, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.

According to them, the videos have been recorded on Saturday 12 October 2019, by an islamist military group fighting under the Syrian National Army banner that had momentarily cut off part of the M4 highway, the main east-west artery running through the Kurds’ enclave to the Syrian-Iraqi border. The Syrian Democratic Forces later said they had reclaimed the area.

But during its brief control, the jihadist group stopped civilian cars and taxis and summarily executed nine of them. "The nine civilians were executed at different moments south of the town of Tal Abyad," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The video released by the group’s cadres depicted them firing streams of bullets into the corpse of an unarmed civilian they had apprehended moments before, to shouts of “God is great”, (Allahu Akbar). A bit later as it can be seen in the video, the same militia killed a female Kurdish party official and her driver, AFP reported.

Hevrin Khalaf was "taken out of her car during a Turkish-backed attack and executed by Turkish-backed mercenary factions", the political arm of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a statement, (the fact is verified by the video where you see the mercenaries surrounding a black car that has been clearly been sprayed with bullets, while a person lies dead next to it). "This is a clear evidence that the Turkish state is continuing its criminal policy towards unarmed civilians," it added.

A map sent by an SDF official showed the location of the incident on the M4 highway southeast of Tal Abyad, Reuters said. Khalaf had been returning from a meeting at the time of the attack, Hussein Omar, the Future Syria Party's coordinator in Europe, told Reuters.

Figures from the Rojava Information Centre on Saturday said 45 civilians had been killed as a result of Turkish artillery bombardment, with another 85 injured.

A spokesman said: “The number of casualties may be higher since our team is unable to reach many of the targeted sites because of the Turkish warplanes and artillery, as well as the indiscriminate firing.”

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