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Fehim Tastekin

Fehim Tastekin

Apr 27, 2022

Syria refugees — Syrians who have been recently turned refugees by the Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria share a meal in a large tent upon arriving at the Bardarash camp, near the Kurdish city of Dohuk, in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, on Oct. 20, 2019. — SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images

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Syrian Kurds demonstrate on June 10, 2021, in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli.

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Turkish army tanks control the centre of the old medieval Kurdish town of Ammadiya, July 13. 2004. Turkish forces entered Iraq's Kurdish zone in 1997 under a year-long agreement with Kurdish authorities to pursue militants from a Turkish Kurd rebel group, but with their territory now part of a newly sovereign Iraq, Kurds feel the Turks may have overstayed their welcome. Picture taken July 13, 2004. REUTERS/Sasa Kralj RCS/DBP - RP5DRICSWDAA

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