The Democratic Press Union of Northeast Syria (YRD) announced that free press worker Vedat Erdemci died in a Turkish air raid on the Serêkaniyê (Ras al-Ain) city on 11 October. According to the Union, the 27-year-old journalist was active for a long time in various institutions of the free media and lost his life while documenting the Turkish state’s aggression against Northern Syria with his camera.

YRD said that a brother of Erdemci had died defending his people against the ISIS atrocity in Serêkaniyê in 2015. According to YRD, Vedat 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.

After Saed Şêxmûs Ehmed, Mihemed Hesen Reşîd and Dılovan, Vedat Erdemci is the fourth journalist to die during the Turkish invasion of Northern Syria.