According to a journalists’ association, two journalists working for Kurdish media were killed in the north Syria while fighting between Turkish-backed fighters and Syrian Kurdish militias is reported.
Turkey-based journalists’ association Dicle-Firat said on Friday that Nazim Dastan and Cihan Bilgin were killed on Thursday when their vehicle was reportedly attacked by a Turkish drone on a road near the Tishrin Dam.
The Tishrin Dam, located about 56 miles east of Aleppo, has been the scene of clashes between the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Turkish-backed opposition forces.
There was no immediate comment from Turkish officials.
Bianet, a news website dedicated to human rights issues, said Bilgin was a reporter for the Kurdish news agency Hawar, while Dastan worked as a freelance journalist for the Firat news agency, which is linked to the militant group Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Turkey considers the SDF a terrorist organization because its main component is a group allied to the PKK.
The group has been waging an armed struggle against the Turkish state since the 1980s in pursuit of its goal of securing the autonomy of the Kurds in the country.
