A prominent Syrian journalist and documentary film maker known
for his anti-Daesh/ISIS films has been assassinated in Turkey's
Southern Anatolia region. (Daesh is a terrorist group affiliated to the
Islamic State.)
Naji al-Jarf, editor-in-chief of the Hentah monthly, was shot
in the head with a silenced handgun by unknown assailants near the
Syrian border in the Turkish town of Gaziantep on Sunday, December 27 and died after
being transferred to hospital.
"Naji Jerf was killed today in Gaziantep. He and his family had been
granted asylum in France,&were to leave tomorrow. We 're all in
shock." he tweeted.
As an investigation was being carried out into the incident, a Daesh
supporter reportedly attributed the killing to the terrorist group on
social media.
According to New York-based NGO Committee to Protect Journalists
(CPJ), Jerf had recently directed and produced a film documenting the
killing of Syrian activists by Daesh terrorists during their occupation
of the Syrian city of Aleppo in 2013 and 2014.
"We call on Turkish authorities to bring the killers of Naji Jerf to
justice swiftly and transparently, and to step up measures to protect
all Syrian journalists on Turkish soil," said the nonprofit’s regional
coordinator.
The 38-year-old father of two, was from the western Syrian city of al-Salamiyah.
Daesh has seized parts of Iraq and Syria, where it carries out the
bulk of its activities. It has been engaged in bloody acts of terrorism
against people of all communities in the areas under its control.
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