Beheaded bodies of Syria anti-IS activist, friend found in Turkey

The beheaded bodies of a Syrian activist opposed to the Islamic State group and a friend were found early Friday in the southern Turkish city of Sanliurfa, his colleagues said.

 Ibrahim Abdul Qader, 20, and Fares Hamadi "were found beheaded at the friend's house this morning," Abu Mohammad, a founder of the activist's "Raqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently"group, told AFP via the Internet.

 RBSS, which documents abuses in areas under IS control in Syria, accused the jihadist organisation of the murders on its Facebook page.

 Abdul Qader also worked as the executive director, and Hamadi as  head of production, for Syrian media collective Eye on the Homeland, according to that group's Facebook profile.

 According to Abu Mohammad, both men were from Raqa city, the de facto capital of IS in Syria. Hamadi was also in his early twenties.

 Abdul Qader had escaped to Turkey a little over a year ago.

 RBSS members had been killed inside Syria in the past, but this is the first killing outside the country, Abu Mohammad added.

 Turkey's Dohan news agency reported Friday that "two Syrian journalists were beheaded" in Sanliurfa, and that seven Syrians had been arrested by Turkish police.

 Sanliurfa is 55 kilometres (35 miles) from Turkey's border with Syria's Raqa province, a major IS stronghold.

 Turkey has long been accused by Syrian opposition activists, Kurdish fighters and sometimes even Western partners of allowing IS members to slip back and forth across its 911-kilometre (566-mile) frontier with Syria.

 Bloody bomb attacks in southern Turkey, including one in July that claimed 32 lives in Suruc, have been blamed on IS. The group has never claimed responsibility for the blasts.