REFUGEES who fled the Turkish invasion of Afrin have still not received international support despite an urgent appeal made last week.

More than 176,000 people have been forced to leave Afrin which has come under heavy bombardment from Nato’s second largest army.

Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch, which began in January, brought together Turkish troops and Free Syria Army jihadist mercenaries to invade the largely Kurdish Afrin region in northern Syria on the pretext of fighting terrorism.