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Heyva Sor makes urgent appeal for those injured in Turkish air strikes
The Kurdish Red Cross

TURKEY’S invasion of northern Syria has caused a humanitarian crisis, with hundreds of thousands of civilians forced to flee from their homes as they are bombarded by air strikes.

A region which is the most free, tolerant and democratic in the Middle East, where women play a leading role in all levels of society, is in danger of being overrun by the same jihadists that were driven out of Rojava by Kurdish-led forces.

Turkey is Nato’s second-largest army and has allied with a myriad of jihadist groups known as the Syrian National Army — formerly the Free Syrian Army — to invade and occupy the region.

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