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Monday, August 11, 2014

Turkey must protect the Iraqi Kurds - CONTRIBUTOR

Turkey must protect the Iraqi Kurds

WLADIMIR VAN WILGENBURG

In a one-week blitzkrieg, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), who now refer to themselves as the Islamic State (IS), have purged religious and ethnic minorities from the countryside of Mosul and have managed to capture new oil fields, weapons, and most important of all, the Mosul Dam. ISIL is becoming a bigger threat to Turkey every day, but Turkey’s hands are tied with 49 staff of Turkey’s Mosul consulate still in ISIL-hands.

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