Zaher al-Shurqat
Year: 2016
Nationality:
Killed by: Political Group
Location: Gaziantep, Turkey
Press organization: Aleppo Today
What's Zaher al-Shurqat's story?
Syrian journalist Zaher al-Shurqat died in hospital on April 12, 2016, after a masked man shot him in the head on April 10 in a street in the southern Turkish town of Gaziantep, according to news reports. He was 36. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the murder, making Al-Shurqat the fourth Syrian journalist the group claimed to have killed in Turkey since October 2015.
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