Media watchdogs, including a UN body, have entreated Turkey to behavior a swift and neutral probe into the murder of Naji Jerf, a prominent Syrian journalist. In the meantime, journalists borderless expressed doubt that Ankara will meet the needs. “We strongly encourage the Turkish authorities to shed light on the murder as soon as viable and to conduct a full and impartial investigation,” Johann Bihr, head of journalists borderless (RWB) for jap Europe and significant Asia, told RT. Nevertheless, he burdened that crimes in opposition to representatives of the media are “hardly ever entirely investigated” in Turkey. “unluckily, we ought to note that impunities are without doubt fashionable [in Turkey] for instances of violence against journalists – now not simplest murders, but there are large-unfold assaults towards journalists, for example, via cops,” Bihr stated. The author of a few anti-Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) documentaries, Naji Jerf, used to be shot in the head in extensive daylight within the city of Gaziantep on Sunday. He became the 0.33 Syrian journalist to be assassinated in Turkey over the last three months after Ibrahim Abd al-Qader and Fares Hamadi have been determined useless an apartment within the town of Urfa in October. The assaults on the Syrians were claimed via IS jihadists, who manipulate significant ingredients of land in Syria and Iraq. “The predicament is getting rather dangerous. And we are fairly involved about the chilling outcome such incidents could have on colleagues; on all the different Syrian journalists and activists exiled in Turkey,” the RWB consultant said. “The problem is deteriorating due to the fact that ISIL militants come what may in finding it easy to go the border in a single sense or a further,” he introduced. Bihr described the state of press freedom in Turkey as “appalling” and called upon Ankara to “permit journalists from all across the political spectrum to express themselves.” The president of UN Correspondents association, Giampaolo Pioli, said that it’s Turkey’s “ethical duty in entrance of the arena” to find the killers of Jerf, editor-in-chief of the independent month-to-month Hentah, because the attack occurred on its territory. He expressed confidence that the federal government in Ankara “will do all they may be able to to make sure the dependable to justice.” “If this crime remains unsolved – certainly, in the country like Turkey that has additionally problems with inner press that’s usually is jailed or attacked with the aid of the federal government – that’s going to be a serious drawback for freedom of the clicking in that distinctive state and world wide,” Pioli told RT. The organization’s head recounted that Turkey is now “close to, now not secure” for journalists, however brought that “the arena is fitting much less and less risk-free… there have been forty nine journalists murdered in 2015 and 69 were killed doing their job.” the eu Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has also issued a assertion, demanding “the Turkish authorities to step up measures to safeguard Syrian journalists and media employees founded in Turkey.” “It seems clear to us that Syrian journalists and media staff who have fled to Turkey should not risk-free at all,” it mentioned. Ankara opening an investigation into Jerf’s demise love it did in prior cases is “now not ample,” the EFJ burdened. The Committee to safeguard Journalists (CPJ) additionally sounded the alarm over Syrian journalists, who've fled to Turkey, being “no longer reliable in any respect” within the country. “We name on Turkish authorities to carry the killers of Naji Jerf to justice rapidly and transparently, and to step up measures to protect all Syrian journalists on Turkish soil,” Sherif Mansour, CPJ's middle East and North Africa application coordinator, stated. Read move: Captured ISIS fighter says 'expert in Turkey, ISIS thinks it’s safer right here than Syria' http://on.Rt.Com/70hi Former member of the Turkish parliament, Dr. Aykan Erdemir, advised RT that more attacks on journalists are to be anticipated in the country. “It appears ISIL has developed quite an operational capability on Turkish soil; that ISIL assassins appear to be able to go inside and out of Turkey. And we can predict that an identical atrocities will continue within the days to come back,” he said. Erdemir mentioned a final’s year survey by way of Metropoll that claimed “that 10 percentage of the Turkish public do have sympathies for ISIS, because of this that it’s no longer just a phenomenon of overseas fighters, nevertheless it’s commencing to also have some local helps.” “any further, not simplest the Syrian activists and journalists, but in addition Turkish journalists won't feel risk-free,” he added. As for the investigation of Jerf’s loss of life, the previous MP famous that “no person has been apprehended or introduced before the courtroom of law” in the killing of the two fellow Syrian journalists in October. Read extra: http://on.Rt.Com/70jd =================================================== lanjut . . . G2: http://g2asia.Blogspot.My/