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AKCAKALE, Turkey: Ethnic cleansing charged as Kurds move on Islamic State town in Syria | World | McClatchy DC

Ethnic cleansing charged as Kurds move on Islamic State town in Syria

By Mousab Alhamadee and Roy Gutman

McClatchy Foreign StaffJune 13, 2015

AKCAKALE, Turkey — After receiving a crush of 13,000 Syrian refugees in less than a week, Turkey on Saturday closed a key border crossing to Syria and complained that a combined U.S.-Kurdish offensive against the Islamic State was driving Arabs and Turkmens out of Syria.

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