Vedat Erdemci, Syria

Vedat Erdemci, 27, a freelance journalist, was killed in the Turkish airstrike on the Syrian town of Ras-al-Ain on October 11. According to the Democratic Press Union of Northeast Syria, Erdemci recently worked on a documentary about the Yazidi children liberated from the captivity of the ISIS by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in al-Baghouz.

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