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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Informal border patrols on Turkish-Syrian border highlight complex Turkish stance on IS, Kurds

Informal border patrols on Turkish-Syrian border highlight complex Turkish stance on IS, Kurds
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By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press

CAYKARA, Turkey — Their collars pulled up against the evening cold, a group of men and women peer through binoculars, scanning the fields along a barbed wire fence. A few kilometers (miles) away across the Turkish border, black smoke rises from the besieged Kurdish Syrian town of Kobani, the dull thud of mortars carrying across on the breeze.

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