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Refugees flee throughout the Middle
East, to escape armed conflict, terrorism, torture and destruction. We see
extensive media coverage of the attacks, the military actions, the horror in
destruction, including murders. Who asks the women who must flee, as the
Kurdish women in Southern Turkey, how they feel to be innocent victims of this
war, displaced, homeless, refugees, women trying to hold families together for
basic safety and survival? Assuredly culture and traditions affect
publicity of the women's lens of this trauma and tragedy. But, we as women
sense and feel together, and care that the women's and girls'
experiences in war and conflict be exposed, be addressed, and be a driving
force for peace.
Some
138,000 Syrian Kurdish refugees have entered southern Turkey in an exodus to
escape ISIS, that began last week, and two border crossing points remain open,
the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said.
Turkey - which shares a border with Iraq and
Syria - has taken in more than
847,000 refugees since the Syrian uprising began three years ago.
