Gunmen shot and badly wounded a prominent Syrian activist and journalist living in southern Turkey, AFP reported Monday (June 13th).

Ahmad Abdel Qader, 33, was shot multiple times by two people on a motorcycle late Sunday while he was inside a car in the southern Turkish city of Sanliurfa, Turkey's Dogan news agency reported.

He was admitted to surgery in one of the city's hospitals.

Abdel Qader belonged to a media collective known as Eye on the Homeland in Sanliurfa and was strongly opposed to the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL).

ISIL-linked media outlet Amaq News Agency said "fighters" from ISIL had carried out the shooting in Sanliurfa, without giving further details.

Eye on the Homeland said in a statement Abdel Qader had survived a "failed assassination attempt" after unidentified men fired three shots at him and escaped.

"He is now out of surgery and his situation is stable," it added.

His brother Ibrahim, the former executive director of Eye on the Homeland, and another man, Fares Hamadi, were found decapitated in October 2015 in a house in Sanliurfa, in an attack claimed by ISIL.