ISIS Claims Responsibility for Murdered Syrian Journalists

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for two Syrian journalists killed in Urfa. ISIS has blamed the journalists İbrahim Abdulkadir and Hamadi for "uniting with Crusaders against ISIS".

According to article by David Remnick from New Yorker, "They thought they were safe in Turkey" has been posted on ISIS' social media websites.

Demand for effective investigation

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has demanded an effective investigation to be launched by Turkey over the murder.

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a statement on its Twitter account and website saying "Death of two journalists exhibit what kind of dangers journalists face in Syria".

"If not us, then who?"

Murdered İbrahim Abdülkadir (20) and Firaz Hamadi at his 20s resided in Urfa last year fleeing Raqqa. Abdulkadir was a member of Bashar al Assad regime opposite Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS). RBSS' website has been constantly hacked ISIS. ISIS had kidnapped and killed one of the founders of RBSS, El Moutaz Bellah İbrahim, in May 2014, and three months later videotaped two of its member after killing them.

Hamadi was working at media cooperative, Eye on Homeland, in Syria. They Syrian journalist said to be close to Free Syrian Army (FSA) had been found beheaded. Abdulkadir in an interview with NBC had said, "We are sons of this country. If we won't proclaim our suffering to whole word, show violence [of ISIS], then who will?" (AS/TK)

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