The Turkish state continues to kill journalists. Journalist Egîd Roj was targeted and killed in an attack carried out by Turkey with an armed drone on the Tishrin Dam in Northern and Eastern Syria.

Egîd Roj was born in Efrîn (Afrin) in northern Syria, which was occupied in 2018 as part of a war of aggression by Turkey and its mercenary force SNA. Since the occupation of his native city, he had dedicated his work to documenting human rights violations in northern and eastern Syria. Before Egîd Roj moved his area of operations to the Euphrates at the end of last year and also observed the vigil at the Tishrin Dam, he had worked in the Shehba region. There he also accompanied the evacuation of the population from the city of Tel Rifat, which is now also controlled by Turkish jihadist mercenaries.

Egîd Roj is one of three journalists who have been killed while carrying out their work in the northeast Syrian autonomous region by NATO member Turkey in drone attacks since December. On 19 December 2024, his two colleagues, Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin, were killed by a drone strike, also near the Euphrates front. Daştan worked for ANF, while Bilgin was a correspondent for ANHA. Another journalist, Aziz Köyllüoğlu, who also worked in Rojava, was killed in a Turkish drone attack in South Kurdistan at the end of January.