Eyat Suttu

Iraqi Turkmens ‘left for dead’ in desert

Published by Hurriyet on Tue, 07/22/2014 - 00:01

Thousands of Turkmen refugees who fled ISIL violence in Telafer are being abandoned to their fate under 50 degrees of hot weather in the desert A humanitarian tragedy is unfolding in Iraq as Turkmens who fled the advance of the feared Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are now succumbing to the region’s scorching summer sun as refugees.