Update (9-25-14): Kurds issue desperate plea from Syrian border town as ISIS closes in ~

Aug.24, 2014 ~ Even as U.S. airstrikes continued to pound Islamic State positions in Syria, Kurdish fighters told FoxNews.com the terror organization was advancing on the Syrian town of Kobani, where as many as 400,000 residents and refugees are holed up […]
 
Desperate field commanders in Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, fear the worst unless help arrives soon, and note 70,000 refugees have already fled across the border into Turkey. Hundred of thousands more, including women, remain, ready to fight[…]
 
The town’s population of 60,000 has swelled to 400,000 in recent months as refugees – mainly Turkmen and Kurds – poured in to escape fighting elsewhere. Refugees who have fled to Kobani have recounted seeing their villages burned and their neighbors beheaded.

Looks like the “lucky” ones made it to Turkey ~

 
Fleeing ISIS, leaving behind everything, tens of thousands of Syrians are essentially running for their lives into Turkey. National Geographic contributing photographer John Stanmeyer, who has his own boots on the ground – so to speak – in Turkey, reports on the growing crisis that ISIS has created in Syria ~

At least 66,000 Syrian Kurds streamed into Turkey on Saturday (Sept. 20, 2014), fleeing the latest advances of the Islamic State—the violent Sunni group that has declared a caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq—as it moved further north in a bid to extend territorial control. The militants’ onslaught left as many as 40 towns and villages in northern Syria, including the border city of Ayn al-Arab, called Kobani in Kurdish, virtually empty, as thousands of men, women and children sought safety.

Judging by this heart-wrenching picture, these refugees aren’t poor, already dispossessed people. They’re middle class Syrians who up until last week were living normal lives; going to work and school every day, sleeping in beds, eating regular meals, raising their families. But now – the ISIS barbarians have decided they don’t get to do any of those things anymore. Just imagine not knowing what you’re going to eat for dinner, or where you’re going to spend the night, much less where you’ll be next week, next month… They’re lives have been turned upside down by these sub-human terrorists.

The situation is epic — 130,000 fellow human beings leaving everything behind seeking safety. The work that I’ve done for over 25 years across the globe has always been that of the human condition. What we are witnessing is a humanitarian crisis combined with a huge responsibility for Turkey. I hope as a collective humanity we can do our best to realize that these people leaving everything behind could be anyone of us.
~ John Stanmeyer

 
For now these Syrians are being assisted mainly by their Kurdish brethren in Turkey:

As Turkish Kurds have responded to their ethnic brothers and sisters in Syria, friction has heated up between the Kurdistan Workers Party and Turkish security forces, who used tear gas and water cannons against them in several clashes.
 
The number of Syrian refugees now in Turkey since the beginning of the conflict is approaching 1.6 million, according to the Turkish government.

Source: CNN World

 
 
How safe the Syrian Kurds will be in Turkey only time will tell.
Unfortunately for these refugees – and for western interests in general – Turkey, previously a secular Muslim country, is becoming much more hardline Islamic. In fact there’s credible evidence that the country actually helped incubate this new terrorist “state” as Gatestone Institute explains ~ Turkey’s Frankenstein Monster ~

It all began when Turkey’s leaders thought they could build a Sunni belt under Turkish hegemony, and resting geographically under the Crescent and Star. For that to actually happen, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq had to be ruled by Sunni — preferably Muslim Brotherhood-type — leaderships subservient to Ankara […]
 
In reality, Ankara slowly made Turkey’s southeast a hub for every color of radical Islamist militant arriving from dozens of different countries, including thousands from Europe. The militants would cross the border into Syria, fight al-Assad’s forces, go back to Turkey, get medical treatment there if necessary, replenish their weapons and ammunition and go back to fight again. In an audio recording leaked on the internet in March, Turkey’s top intelligence officer admits that, “Turkey has so far sent 2,000 trucks full of weapons and ammunition into Syria.”
 
Last June, Turkey’s own Frankenstein monster, who went by the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] — later reflagged as “The Islamic State” [IS] — appeared at its old master’s doors. IS attacked the Turkish consulate compound in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, after having captured large swathes of Syrian and Iraqi territory. It also took 49 Turks, including the consul general, hostage.

 
ISIS has since released those hostages. But Turkey is still a huge wild card in what’s turning into a horribly confusing game of crazy Muslims.
 
Unlike the illegal influx on our southern border (engineered by our own federal government to permanently erode America’s national sovereignty) this mass Syrian exodus is truly a humanitarian crisis.
 
 
When I snuggle down in my nice comfy bed tonight, I’ll be thanking God for the incredible blessings in my life, especially the simple things that we all take for granted – and remembering the Syrian Kurds in my prayers.
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