Turkey refugee crisis deepens as Islamic State besieges Syrian border town

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By Jonny Hogg KARACA Turkey (Reuters) - All that separates Mohammed Muslim from his village in Syria is a barbed wire fence running along the Turkish border, but the dull thud of artillery and the rattle of machinegun fire suggest he will **t be going home anytime soon. Muslim, dressed in a battered suit, his mustache flecked with gray, is among more than 150,000 Syrian Kurds who have fled to Turkey over the past week to escape the advance of Islamic State militants, who have seized villages and beheaded residents as they push towards the strategic border town Kobani. ...

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