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A Syrian opposition film-maker was gunned down in broad daylight in the Turkish city of Gazientep on Sunday, apparently by Isil supporters.
Friends said that Naji Jerf, 38, was shot twice in the head after being approached by an unknown car outside of a local restaurant.
Mr Jerf was a vocal critic of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) group which seized large swathes of Syria last year, training citizen journalists fromRaqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), an internationally-praised media collective that exposes the terrorist group’s atrocities inside its de facto Syrian capital.
The father-of-two was directing a film about that media effort, and also worked as editor-in-chief of Hentah, a Syrian magazine that reports on the “daily lives of Syrian citizens”, according to its website …. http://www.telegraph.co.uk