SYRIAC Christians united to condemn attacks by Turkish forces and their jihadist allies in northern Syria today and started a “genocide watch” as hundreds of thousands fled their homes.

The Syriac Strategic Research Centre warned that Isis fighters had caused a “large migration” of Christians from an area east of the River Euphrates as they swept across the region.

This reduced the Christian population dramatically, from 300,000 people to 100,000, with the remaining numbers spread across the border area where Turkey wants to drive out all the residents and replace them with Syrian refugees.