Firaz Hamadi

A Syrian journalist has escaped an assault in Turkey, months after his journalist brother and a colleague were killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in southeastern ?anl?urfa province, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. 

Police in the southeastern province of ?anl?urfa have identified four militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suspected of killing Syrian journalists ?brahim Abdulkadir and Firaz Hamadi on Oct. 29, 2015, daily Habertürk has reported.  

Abdulkadir was the managing editor of the Syrian Ayn Vatan newspaper, while Hamadi was a reporter for the same daily.

Two Syrian journalists have been murdered in Turkey's southeastern province of ?anl?urfa in what is presumed to be an attack by militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

?brahim Abdulkadir, managing editor at Syrian Ayn Vatan newspaper and Firaz Hamadi, a reporter for the same newspaper, had fled the conflict in Syria for ?anl?urfa, where they shared a flat.