Turkish Border Guards-Gendarmerie

Executive Summary In the present report, Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) will address the abuses meted out to Syrian asylum seekers by the Turkish border guards (Gendarmerie). The report…

Between January and February 2022, Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) documented three separate targeted shootings by the Turkish Border Guards which resulted in three civilian casualties. The guards deliberately…

On the evening of June 11, 2019, Ranim Khattab, 20, was sitting with her young child in Kafr Lousin camp when Turkish border guards fired directly at the rudimentary dwellings…

Turkish border guard’s (Gendarmerie) shot and killed two children and a young man in January and February 2021. Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) documented that a child was shot…

Executive summary Thousands of migrants and refugees, including Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans, and Iranians, as well as Turkish, massed at Turkey’s borders with Greece, after Erdoğan let them to Europe on…

At least, 12 men and women shot dead by the Turkish border guards (Gendarmerie) while attempting to access into Turkey illegally during July, August, September and October 2019. Turkey continues…

Executive summary: Turkey has forcibly deported Syrian refugees to the war-torn country, putting their lives in grave danger. As they became more vulnerable to harsh living conditions and abuses by…

The STJ statistics on the crimes committed by the Turkish border guards (Gendarmerie) against asylum seekers in Syria’s Ras al-Ayn/ Sari Kani city alone, during the first half of 2019,…

Executive Summary Throughout Turkey, Istanbul city particularly, thousands of Syrians were subjected to mass deportations or forcibly returned to Syrian territories, under the latest campaign launched by the Turkish authorities…