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Ethnic Cleansing in Afrin, Blood on Turkey’s Hands

2019-08-02
By: Meghan Bodette

These details paint a disturbing picture of the conditions that forced Afrin’s Kurdish population to flee — and make it clear what would happen were Turkey allowed to attack SDF-held territory again.Continue Reading

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