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The Grand Turk
As fighting intensifies in Syria, Turkey braces for fresh wave of refugees
2015-10-22
[Rudaw] Turkish security officials are expecting a fresh influx of 50,000 refugees from neighboring Syria, as Russian jets pound the city of Aleppo and many residents prepare to flee.

"Around 50,000 people living in Aleppo have begun preparations to leave," the Hurriyet Daily News said on its website.

Russian warplanes have been pounding the beleaguered city's southern and eastern neighborhoods as part of the fight against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group (ISIS). Syrian government troops have also begun a land operation near the city, which is expected to cause more locals to flee.

"Turkish security sources said they expected the number of refugees leaving Aleppo to increase to 350,000 by the weekend if the Arclight Arclight airstrikes continue, with a number of these people being expected to reach The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's border," Hurriyet said.

It quoted Syrian Turkmen Council President Abdurrahman Mustafa confirming that 50,000 people have left the city and are heading to Turkey.

"A major migration has started from the south of Aleppo. Turkmens are in the rural and northern part of the city. The migration will be larger when the regime forces reach here," the daily quoted Mustafa as saying.

The Syrian army, reportedly backed by Leb's Shiite Hezbollah movement and Iran's elite Quds force, has made small gains since launching ground assaults in Aleppo, Hama, Homs and Latakia over the past two weeks.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  IIRC, the EU is expecting = prepping for a 3.0Milyuhn new wave of mostly Muslim Migrants thanks to Darth Vlad/Vladvedev's = Russia's intervention in Syria.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-10-22 22:41  

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