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130,000 Syrians Flee ISIL

Heidi Carreon |
September 22, 2014 | 11:08 a.m. PDT

Web Producer

With the advance of ISIL, thousands of Syrians seek safety in Turkey. (Freedom House/Flikr)
With the advance of ISIL, thousands of Syrians seek safety in Turkey. (Freedom House/Flikr)
130,000 Syrians have fled to Turkey over the past four days to avoid Islamic militants. The people are mostly women, children and the elderly, according to an AP report. Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister, Numan Kurtulmus, warned that Turkey was experiencing "a refugee wave that can be expressed by hundreds of thousands."

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