Correspondent via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/turkey-refugees-islamic-state-kurds-border-desperate-flight-from-syria#.VX7tbGCqyn0 We have been on the Turkey-Syria border for nearly a week now, within sight of the Syrian town of Tal Abyad where Kurdish forces are battling Islamic State jihadists for control. Thousands have fled the fighting, hoping to join the 1.8 milllion Syrian refugees already in Turkey, 13,500 of them from … Continue reading Fleeing through the eye of a needle – Correspondent