An anti-ISIS journalist and film maker has been assassinated in Turkey, UK Mirror reports. According to the report, Naji Jerf, who has been granted asylum in France was due to move to France with his family today before the hoodlums struck and killed him.
He works for RBSS, a group of citizen journalists who work to expose human rights abuses in Raqa, the northeastern city that ISIS uses as its de facto capital in Syria.
ISIS supporter has since 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 ISIS 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. Jerf was also editor in chief of Hentah, a Syrian magazine that reports on the "daily lives of Syrian citizens", said the publication's website.
May his soul rest in the peace of the Lord, Amen
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