2 Syrian Anti-’ISIS’ Activists Beheaded in Turkey
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Two Syrian anti-"ISIS" activists were found beheaded in a house in southern Turkey.
The bodies of 20-year-old activist Ibrahim Abdulqader and Fares Hamadi, also in his 20s, were found in Hamadi's apartment in the city of Sanliurfa, nearly 60 kilometers from the Turkish border with Syria, al-Jazeera reported Friday, citing an anti-"ISIS" activist group called "Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently [RBSS]."
Raqqa is a northeastern Syrian province and also a city heavily controlled by the foreign-backed "ISIS" terrorist group.
The RBSS said the incident in Turkey was the first such attack on its members in Turkish territory, where "ISIS" reportedly maintains presence.
Several members of the activist group had been murdered inside Syria and around Raqqa in the past; but the Friday killings were the first against RBSS members outside the country.
A Raqqa native, Abdulqader fled his hometown to Turkey while studying for his high school diploma in late 2013, after he was arrested and tortured by "ISIS" forces.
Having been formed in April 2014, shortly after the Takfiri terror group began to consolidate control over Raqqa, the RBSS runs a network of secret correspondents that operate in and around the city and provide accounts of "ISIS" atrocities in the area.
Turkey has time and again been accused of being one of the main supporters of the militant groups operating in Syria, with reports saying that Ankara actively trains and arms the terrorists there and facilitates their safe passage into the Arab country.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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