Turkey: Gendarmerie General Command tormented teen-agers

In social networks, a horrifying video was published showing that members of the Turkish gendarmerie’s service beat and tortured 4 Syrian youths on the Syrian-Turkish border in the province of Idlib. At least one of the teenagers was seriously injured.

Sources in the Turkish media claimed that the youth were Kurds and tried to smuggle weapons into Turkey. However, none of the young people was armed on video, and there were no signs of captured weapons. Local sources claimed that the youth were Arabs from Idlib.