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Turkey quits the EU, Turks form an alliance with IRAN

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Wednesday, August 28, 2013 10:13 PM

UN refugee head: Syria on 'verge of the abyss'

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middle-east/2013/08/27/refugee-head-s
yria-verge-the-abyss/TWqUGZNixU9fGHElbxiYRP/story.html


He made the comments during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad while on a visit to Iraq. The country’s northern Kurdish region has been flooded with tens of thousands of refugees since the middle of the month.

The region’s president, Massoud Barzani, earlier this month vowed to defend the large Kurdish population in Syria from al-Qaida-linked rebel fighters, though there is no indication for now that the regional government plans to deploy Kurdish fighters across the border. Doing so would further strain fraught relations with the central government in Baghdad and anger neighboring Turkey.

More than 25 million Kurds live in parts of Turkey, Iran, Syria and Iraq. Many hope to one day carve out an independent homeland of their own.

Peace in Kurdistan?
http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article3083


Syrian Kurdish Leader Warns on Turkey’s Peace Process
http://blogs.wsj.com/middleeast/2013/08/28/syrian-kurdish-leader-warns
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Kurdistan: The Most Dangerous Word in Turkey
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/502096/20130828/kurdistan-turkey.htm

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Thursday, March 18, 2021 3:05 PM

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-happened-to-the-syrian-refug
ees-who-got-stuck-in-turkey
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What happened to the Syrian refugees who got stuck in Turkey?

https://en.armradio.am/2021/03/16/european-parliament-condemns-turkeys
-use-of-syrian-mercenaries-in-the-karabakh-conflict
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European Parliament condemns Turkey’s use of Syrian mercenaries in the Karabakh conflict

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